linux-kernel - Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

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Date:	Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:42:23 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
To:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Maarten Lankhorst
<m.b.lankhorst@...il.com> wrote:
> Patch vbox' kernel modules instead?
> Seems to mark it as crap, all you have to do is add this to the driver source:
> MODULE_INFO(staging, "Y");

The distributions can't patch the user's vbox modules.  Unless they're
patched in the upstream vbox source, this really isn't going to work.

josh
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