Re: The tainted message

[Richard Thrapp]

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 07:08, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Richard Thrapp <[e-mail]> :
> [...]
> > First of all, the current tainted message is not really useful. 
> > "Warning: Loading %s will taint the kernel..." isn't very informative at
> > all.  Most people don't know what it means to "taint the  kernel".  It's
> 
> Add a reference to http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s1-18. An explanation is already
> there.

That doesn't fix the problem.  The message is still wrong.  A reference
to an explanation only helps the people who can reach it immediately. 
Linux is also used on manufacturing floors (and several other places)
where no network connections exist.

-- Richard Thrapp