linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Date:	Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:12:39 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	"Giridhar Pemmasani" <pgiri@...oo.com>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

On 10/24/06, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> 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.
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