mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me some directions...
Hi everybody,
i use a Pmac 8500/PPC604@150mhz with debian unstable and i always used
kernels (both stock and compiled by me) with the 2 SCSI Buses as * (in
the kernel) ....
i've just compiled my new kernel , 2.4.24 .... and it's great , but this
time i've compiled support for my external scsi bus (53c94) as a module,
because i just use a iomega zip 100 with it, and i don't leave it
turned when i turn on my mac , so that if i want to use the zip drive, i
only have to turn it on and load mac53c94 into kernel...
today i did this , turned my zip 100 on , and loaded the mac53c94 into
kernel... but then the surprise:
Jurema:/home/carlos# modprobe mac53c94
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/scsi/mac53c94.o will
taint the kernel: no license
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
tainted modules
Module mac53c94 loaded, with warnings
Jurema:/home/carlos#
what this means ??? that mac53c94 uses proprietary/closed-source
code???? is this bad at all?
any help incoming is well accepted, thnx ;D
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