Re: mac53c94.o tainted code !?!? can someone give me some directions...
On jeu, 2004-01-15 at 16:19, Carlos Eduardo Coelho Baptista wrote:
> 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?
mac53c94.c seems to not define MODULE_LICENSE, making it considered as
proprietary. Perhaps is that a (cosmetic) bug ?
Hub
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