From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261177AbTD2WEb (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:04:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261309AbTD2WEb (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:04:31 -0400 Received: from zeke.inet.com ([199.171.211.198]:35830 "EHLO zeke.inet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261177AbTD2WEa (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:04:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3EAEF9BE.5060805@inet.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:16:30 -0500 From: Eli Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawan Deepika CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 'tainting kernel' problem in linux-2.4.18 References: <20030429215318.27252.qmail@web41608.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pawan Deepika wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying LKM with linux-2.4.18. I have a problem > here. When I load the module using 'insmod' command, > module gets loaded but I get following error > > ------------------------------------------------------ > /sbin/insmod ./hello.o > Warning: loading ./hello.o will taint the kernel: no > license > See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for > information about tainted modules > Module hello loaded, with warnings > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Can anyone tell me why I am getting this problem and > what is the impact of this error while module is > running in kernel. Read the url provided in the error message. If that is not enough, perhaps this one will help: http://lwn.net/2001/0906/kernel.php3 You may want to try kernel-newbies instead since this would be more on-topic there. HTH, Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------