Hello,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
No, it's because the module is not released under the GPL license. Kernel hackers were bored of bug reports concerning bugs on non-free modules, so they added a tag in each module that contains their license. When your kernel oops, it says whether the kernel is tainted or not.
For more informations:
http://lxr.linux.no/source/include/linux/module.h#L107
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx
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