linux-kernel - Re: show all modules which taint the kernel ?

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Message-Id: <1158451669.27690.10.camel@mindpipe>
Date:	Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:07:49 -0400
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	devzero@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: show all modules which taint the kernel ?

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:46 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 08:58:20PM +0200, devzero@....de wrote:
>  > but that "Modules linked in: radeon(U) drm(U) ipv6(U) autofs4(U)...." message has been reported to originate from a fc5 (fedora) kernel. fedora probably also using that novell/suse extension ?
> 
> Different. The Fedora kernel reports U for modules that weren't shipped with
> the Fedora kernel. (It uses gpg signed modules).

Vendor kernels aside, would it be useful for mainline to report this
information - something like nvidia(P) in the module list?

Lee

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