Re: The tainted message

Ian Molton (spyro@armlinux.org)
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:16:30 +0100


Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher Awoke this dragon, who will now respond:

> > Warning: Module %s is not open source, and as such, loading it will
> > make your kernel un-debuggable. Please do not submit bug reports from
> > a kernel with this module loaded, as they will be useless, and likely
> > ignored.
>
> well, that's not the truth: the kernel itself is debuggable, but we
> don't know about the module, and how the module interacts with the
> kernel.

It absolutely IS the truth.

what happens if an errant module clobbers kernel space?
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