Re: The tainted message

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 20:50:36 +0100 (BST)


> > author of this module, or duplicate them from a boot without
> > ever loading this module before reporting them to the community
> > or your Linux vendor
>
> I think you're making an assumption about the vendor's support statement
> that may not be valid. If I were a distro I wouldn't appreciate modutils
> makeing statements about my support policies and confusing the newbies,
> who are after all the target audience here. I'd take that last "or your
> Linux vendor." bit off of this.

This message is correct for just about every distribution. Remember vendors can
and do customise modutils anyway. I don't think its a problem.

Alan
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