Lonnie ....

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 07:07 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 13:11, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
> > > Sent in  a EIP report to the kernel dev group.
> > > They said send it on to nVidia ...
> 
> > > Me thinks this is NOT a nVidia problem.
> >
> > Me agrees.  There are no references to the nvidia driver in your Oops.
> > I'm guessing that the LKML folks saw 'nvidia' and just punted.
> 
> > > Sep 26 04:46:23 desktop kernel: Modules linked in: sr_mod nvidia uhci_hcd
> > > nvidia_agp i2c_nforce2 sata_nv sd_mod ide_scsi agpgart sata_sil libata
> > > genrtc Sep 26 04:46:23 desktop kernel: CPU:    0
> > > Sep 26 04:46:23 desktop kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c01ba714>]    Tainted: P  
> 
> That is their MO.  Notice the "Tainted" keyword?  That is the kernel 
> developers' GOOJFC when dealing with Binary-only kernel modules.  Since they 
> don't have access to the source code, they punt.  I can't say I blame them 
> too much, but it is a rather strong-arm tactic to encourage vendors to 
> release the source for their driver.

Source code modules that do not have the statement:

	MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

also get this complaint when loaded.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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