Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Ar Maw, 2006-10-24 am 15:12 +0300, ysgrifennodd Pekka Enberg:
> On 10/24/06, Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The kernel should not depend on a not-in-tree kernel module to
> > taint the kernel.  The kernel can and should do that itself.
> 
> Agreed. But should the kernel disallow the use of _GPL symbols for
> ndiswrapper? I would say no.

I'd agree providing the attempt to taint function allows an error return
if it did so and it then refuses to load non-GPL windows drivers.

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