--- Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> However by then it has already dynamically linked with explicit GPLONLY
> symbols so it cannot then load a binary windows driver but should unload
> itself or refuse to load anything but the GPL ndis drivers (of which
> afaik only one exists), and even then they expect an environment
> incompatible with the Linux kernel.
So the idea of tainting is to _prevent_ any binary code being loaded into
kernel, even if kernel is marked as having binary code loaded, which I
thought was the purpose of tainting (so that people not interested in dealing
with binary code know they don't have/want to)? If that is the goal, how do
you know this scheme of adding names to module loader in kernel guarantees
that (now or in future)?
Thanks,
Giri
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