Re: /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not seem to work as intended

[Jesper Juhl]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > with X) and the nVidia drivers load as X is started, I check
> > /proc/sys/kernel/tainted and find that it is still 0. Since the nVidia
> > drivers are binary only and not GPL shouldn't /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
> > be 1 (or at least != 0) ???
> 
> It depends if your modutils are current - the work is done in the modutils
> not the kernel

Ahh, thank you for that piece of info. 
I use modutils 2.4.6 and I just found a modutils changelog and it seems
that the "tainted" stuff was not added until 2.4.9.

I'll get my modutils up to date.

/Jesper Juhl