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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license
    Rik van Riel wrote:
    > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Ian Stirling wrote:
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    >
    >>>Your new proposed message sounds much clearer to the ordinary mortal and
    >>>would imho be a significant improvement. Perhaps printing repetitive
    >>>warnings for identical $MODULE_VENDOR strings could also be avoided,
    >>>taking care of the redundancy/volume problem as well..
    >>
    >>Is this worth 100 or 200 bytes of code though?
    >>I'd have to say no.
    >
    >
    > I suspect it'll be worth it. If only because it'll save
    > the kernel community from people asking things like:
    >
    > "help, my kernel is tainted! what does it mean and how can I fix it?"

    Sorry.
    I meant adding code to suppress warnings, not the expanded warning, which is sensible.
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