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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> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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