On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 01:23, MJ Ray wrote:
Willaby willaby@pgen.net writes:
'Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.1...../apm.o will taint the kernel: no license' Does anybody know what this means?
Yes, it's a recent change in the kernel structure. All modules now have to declare their freeness to the kernel, or you get that warning. The ultimate aim is to be able to spot people using badly-written unsupported binary-only drivers (can you say "nvidia"?) a mile off.
Unfortunately, the current kernel doesn't have all its modules declaring their freeness, hence the "no licence" error and a lot of unnecessary taints. Again, a cock-up in the "stable" series. Expect this to get nailed quite swiftly, though.
Yeah, I searched on "taint kernel" and there were a few posts with those words, but nothing specific. But I came to a conclusion close to that. Which means I cant use ALSA on my notebook yet, either, having to use OSS.
Is there a low traffic kernel list, that would provide important information like this?
Thanks for the info.
Andrew.