Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (98 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 1:31 am, Pierre Patino wrote:

> As I said in the original message, I already have set
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"). I also set MODULE_LICENSE(). Hower,
> /var/log/messages still tells me that the kernel is tainted. Is this
> because I'm  using insmod instead of letting the kernel deal with the
> modules via the modules.conf file?
I reproduced your problem. the MODULE_LICENSE macro should prevent the 
tainting message. 
I created a simple hello world module:
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

static int hello_init(void)
{
printk("Hello World!\n");
return 0;
}

static void hello_exit(void)
{
printk("Good bye!\n");
}

module_init(hello_init);
module_exit(hello_exit);

-----------
KDIR:=/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build

obj-m:=hello.o

default:
        $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
clean:
        $(RM) .*.cmd *.o *.ko -r .tmp*

Then, insmod hello.ko
May 10 09:18:07 sauron kernel: module hello unsupported by SUSE/Novell, 
tainting kernel.
May 10 09:18:07 sauron kernel: Hello World!



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