Bug 149904

Summary:	Setting tainted flag through linux module
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Klaus Singvogel <kssingvo>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 4
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Klaus Singvogel 2006-02-10 10:59:33 UTC

I made the security update of my SuSE Linux 10.0 box and noticed that I get the tainted flag through a Novell/Linux distributed module: fscpos

I think it is important that this does not happen ==> Major

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Here is /var/log/warn:
Feb 10 11:19:55 linux kernel: fscpos: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.

prompt> locate fscpos
/lib/modules/2.6.13-15.7-default/kernel/drivers/hwmon/fscpos.ko
/usr/share/doc/packages/sensors/chips/fscpos

prompt> rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/kernel/drivers/hwmon/fscpos.ko
kernel-default-2.6.13-15.8

Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2006-02-10 11:04:32 UTC

No, this is intentional.

Admittedly, the distinction of supported vs unsupported modules doesn't
make a lot of a difference on the box, but for SLES it's essential.