Re: Linux 2.4.22-ac2

[Mike Fedyk]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:16:55PM +0000, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> In article <200309092334.h89NYxh18536@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Alan Cox  <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | (No its not course start time quite yet..)
> | 
> | Various little fixups and tidying bits. Some of these probably want to
> | get pushed on to Marcelo eventually - the small bits and the CMPCI update
> | certainly.
> | 
> | Linux 2.4.22-ac2
> | o	Taint on sii6512 module that someone 		(Arjan van de Ven)
> | 	"accidentally" marked as GPL but is nonfree
> 
> I'm happy to say I haven't ever had to use a tainted kernel, but is this
> clearly marked at config time? Should there be a USE_TAINTED_CODE
> global, like the EXPERIMENTAL and BROKEN options?

Is this "module" in the kernel tree?

If it is, how does it live there at all?  Maybe it's an Open Source license,
that lets you distribute the code, but because of incompatabilities has to
be built as a module?
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