Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:16:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Grzegorz Kulewski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license |
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jorge Bernal (Koke) wrote: > On Martes, 27 de Abril de 2004 20:54, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:53:39 +0200, Grzegorz Kulewski said: > > > Maybe kernel should display warning only once per given licence or even > > > once per boot (who needs warning about tainting tainted kernel?) > > > > If your kernel is tainted by 3 different modules, it saves you 2 reboots > > when trying to replicate a problem with an untainted kernel. > > > > what about something like a /proc/tainted list of modules?
I think that /proc/tainted would be better than spamming logs after each load of tainted module... But probably modules should not be removed from /proc/tainted on unloading (to prevent from "un-tainting" the kernel by "clever" users).
Grzegorz Kulewski
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