Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag string termination trick

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:14:26 +0000
Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:08:14AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > This patch changes the module license handling code to:
> > - prevent the "GPL\0 for nothing"-trick
> 
> You can achieve this effect without changing the existing module
> format, and it's far more difficult to bypass with build-with-
> modified module.h tricks.

Nice, this should go in anyway.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
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