On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:00:19PM -0500, David Stroupe wrote:
> When I load a device driver I get the message:
>
> Warning: loading driver.o will taint the kernel : no license
>
> This is a driver that I created myself and it seems to load and function
> properly regardless of this message.
>
> What does this mean?
>
> How do I resolve it?
Add a "MODULE_LICENSE()" macro to your code, with the proper string for
whatever license your driver is.
So for example, if your code is released under the GPL, you would add:
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
to your file.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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