Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:58:24PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

 > > I feel a bit dirty overloading TAINT_CRAP (even if the name is apropos).
 > > Should I introduce a TAINT_OUT_OF_TREE perhaps instead ?
 > 
 > We could do that in a "generic" way by setting a "in-tree" flag type
 > thing for everything that is built from within the kernel build, and
 > then taint if that flag is not found.

what stops an out of tree module from setting that flag ?
I guess I need to see the implementation to understand this. 

	Dave 
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