From: Carlos Martin <carlosmn@gmail.com>
To: li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com>
Cc: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6: problem with module tainting the kernel
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:31:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe726f4e05061208312e871a8b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050612092544.25913.qmail@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On 12/06/05, li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Randy and everyone who replied.
> Yes, I am using SuSE kernel.
> On building the module it successfully generates
> hello.ko.
> Here is the message I get on doing a insmod of
> hello.ko:
>
> "Jun 12 14:47:56 myhost kernel: hello: unsupported
> module, tainting kernel."
This means that the module is unsupported by SuSE/Novell and
therefore vendor-tainted. It does not mean that the kernel is tainted
in the canonical way. IIRC there are different types of tainting, and
this is just one of them.
--
Carlos Martín http://www.cmartin.tk http://rpgscript.berlios.de
Nowadays everyting has infrared and wireless. If it's big enough, it
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-12 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-10 15:24 2.6: problem with module tainting the kernel li nux
2005-06-10 15:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-11 3:11 ` randy_dunlap
2005-06-11 3:18 ` randy_dunlap
2005-06-12 9:25 ` li nux
2005-06-12 15:31 ` Carlos Martin [this message]
2005-06-11 21:42 ` Carsten Otte
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