On Wed, Feb 05, 2003, Tom Massey wrote: > The message about tainting the kernel comes up for all modules that > don't have the right open source licence. It basically indicates that > if the kernel is made unstable by the module, then there's not going > to be any source code around to help fix the problem.
It also means that the Linux kernel developers won't touch it - they didn't like being asked to debug drivers for which they didn't have the source. The linux-kernel FAQ goes into a bit more detail: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s1-18 [note: that's a pretty big HTML file... it has *all* the FAQs in it] -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
