On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:23:39 +0200 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > ---
> > From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> >
> > For ndiswrapper and driverloader, don't set the module->taints
> > flags, just set the kernel global tainted flag.
> > This should allow ndiswrapper to continue to use GPL symbols.
> > Not tested.
>
>
> can we put something in feature-removal that we'll undo this in say 6
> months?
It's open for discussion AFAIK.
> ndiswrapper is easy to fix to not use the internals of the queue_work
> api, and just use schedule_work() instead. At that time the
> functionality as a whole is still the right one.
> (it's a separate question if ndiswrapper should be in this table;
> driverloader should be, it's non-GPL at all, so that part of your patch
> is broken)
OK, here's the replacement for only ndiswrapper, not driverloader.
---
From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
For ndiswrapper, don't set the module->taints flags,
just set the kernel global tainted flag.
This should allow ndiswrapper to continue to use GPL symbols.
Not tested.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
---
kernel/module.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2619-rc3-pv.orig/kernel/module.c
+++ linux-2619-rc3-pv/kernel/module.c
@@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ static struct module *load_module(void _
set_license(mod, get_modinfo(sechdrs, infoindex, "license"));
if (strcmp(mod->name, "ndiswrapper") == 0)
- add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+ add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0)
add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
-
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