On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 05:39 +0200, asronchetti@libero.it wrote:
> an update:
>
> i've found this information:
>
> Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>
> ==============================================================
>
> tainted:
>
> Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
> can be ORed together:
>
> 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
> includes modules with no license.
> Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
> 4096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded.
> ==============================================================
>
>
>
> maybe the non-GPL module was the nvidia module.
Yes, that's right.
> I dont know what 'out-of-tree module' means.
Any module not built as part of the kernel package. Loading either
bbswitch or nvidia would set this flag.
> anyway, uptime is 14hrs and still no problems :)
Good, but I think it will take longer that to be confident.
Ben.
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