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Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:37:34 +0200
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not
 built in-tree

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 03:12:28PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
> any good.  We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
> should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
> little review.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
> Debian has been carrying this for the last few kernel versions.  The
> recent thread '[RFC] virtualbox tainting.' and discussions at KS suggest
> that this might be more generally useful.

Wonderful, thanks for pushing this:

	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>


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