Re: RFC: virtualbox tainting.

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dave Jones wrote:

>  > > I feel a bit dirty overloading TAINT_CRAP (even if the name is apropos).
>  > > Should I introduce a TAINT_OUT_OF_TREE perhaps instead ?
>  > 
>  > We could do that in a "generic" way by setting a "in-tree" flag type
>  > thing for everything that is built from within the kernel build, and
>  > then taint if that flag is not found.
> 
> what stops an out of tree module from setting that flag ?

What stops virtualbox developers from renaming the module in every 
release? That's the same story.

The only fool-proof way of doing is indeed is the GPG-signing thing.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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