linux-kernel - Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

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Message-ID: <20061023110712.41162.qmail@web32402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:07:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>
To:	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper

--- Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com> wrote:

> Next question - what version of ndiswrapper started voluntary tainting (or
> has 
> it always?)
> 
> That is to say, are there versions of ndiswrapper floating around out there
> in 
> the ether capable of building against 2.6.19-rc* that don't voluntarily 
> add_taint()? (I'm guessing the answer is 'no', but the answer is possibly 
> important to consider)

Since version 1.0, ndiswrapper has been tainting kernel when a driver is
loaded. Version 1.0 is quite old (circa Jan 2005) and won't build with any
recent kernels.

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