Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 21:15 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I have a political question, if I have a user space driver, is my kernel 
> > > tainted or not? 
> > 
> > Surely not. By using the kernel's userspace interface, you create no
> > "derived work" of the kernel. See COPYING in the root directory of the 
> > kernel sources for details.
> 
> That only covers normal system calls - but I don't think thats what is
> relevant, taints are for debug assistance not politics.
> 
> I think we should have a taint flag for UIO type drivers. Not for any
> licensing or political reason but for the simple fact it means that there
> may be other complexities to debugging - and not the same one as a binary
> module. Probably we want the same marker for mmap /dev/mem too.

I agree, if we make it entirely clear that the flag is nonpolitical. 

	tglx


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