Re: Error message when insmodding

David Stroupe <dstroupe@keyed-upsoftware.com> · Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:27:02 -0500

Greg KH wrote:

  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

Thanks Greg.  Since this appears to be new since I developed this driver
using 2.4.7,(now using 2.4.9) should I do an 

ifdef MODULE_LICENSE

MODULE_LICENSE("whatever")

endif

to allow for compilation under older kernels?

Thanks again!!

-- 
Best regards,
David Stroupe
Keyed-Up Software