Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Hello,

Have got the same problem. I just add the following:

1) dmesg claims __create_workqueue and __destroy_workqueue are undefined (kernel syms)
2) I've checked out System.map and they're of course present
3) no problem under 2.6.18.1
4) from ndiswrapper-1.15 to ndiswrapper-1.26

By the way, i would like so much if someone explain me why, since 2.6.18, on my Acer Laptop i had to add irqpoll to correctly boot (had already to use acpi=noirq) and still have strange errors on DVD detection at boot which strangely has not any consequence later.
The problem is there since 2.6.18.

Thanks,

Gianluca


Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:

It seems that the kernel module loader taints ndiswrapper module as
proprietary, but it is not - it is fully GPL: see
http://directory.fsf.org/sysadmin/hookup/ndiswrapper.html

Note that when a driver is loaded, ndiswrapper does taint the kernel (to be
more accurate, it should check if the driver being loaded is GPL or not, but
that is not done).

Thanks,
Giri

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