> > I have a political question, if I have a user space driver, is my kernel
> > tainted or not?
>
> Surely not. By using the kernel's userspace interface, you create no
> "derived work" of the kernel. See COPYING in the root directory of the
> kernel sources for details.
That only covers normal system calls - but I don't think thats what is
relevant, taints are for debug assistance not politics.
I think we should have a taint flag for UIO type drivers. Not for any
licensing or political reason but for the simple fact it means that there
may be other complexities to debugging - and not the same one as a binary
module. Probably we want the same marker for mmap /dev/mem too.
Alan
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