Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 21:41:10 EST


On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Ian Stirling wrote:

> > Your new proposed message sounds much clearer to the ordinary mortal and
> > would imho be a significant improvement. Perhaps printing repetitive
> > warnings for identical $MODULE_VENDOR strings could also be avoided,
> > taking care of the redundancy/volume problem as well..
>
> Is this worth 100 or 200 bytes of code though?
> I'd have to say no.

I suspect it'll be worth it. If only because it'll save
the kernel community from people asking things like:

"help, my kernel is tainted! what does it mean and how can I fix it?"

--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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