linux-kernel - Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

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Date:	Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:51:45 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@...cle.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Hall <andy.hall@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

Hi Dave,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
>> I actually have and had a rough patch that added the code to staging
>> directory in the kernel tree.
>>
>> Admittedly I don't remember anything about the code but surely it
>> meets the standards of what we already have there? :-)
>
> unless upstream commits to some sort of stable ABI policy there is no
> point, you'd just have to ship a module that somehow magically exposes
> different probably incompatible interfaces depending on what userspace
> was running on it.

Absolutely. No disagreement here.

                        Pekka
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