netdev - RE: nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:53:42 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Dave Young' <dyoung@...hat.com>,
	"pablo@...filter.org" <pablo@...filter.org>
CC:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel

From: Dave Young
> With today's linus tree, I got below kmsg:
> [   23.545204] nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> [   23.551886] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
...

Not 100% related, but why does loading a non-GPL module disable 
lock debugging?
(Is 'lock debugging' actually useful?)

	David



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