Re: "Badness in local_bh_enable" - a reasonable fix?
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_at_joe-job.com)
Date: 10/27/05
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To: Steve Snyder <R00020C@freescale.com> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:00:06 -0400
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:20 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:24, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:01 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote:
> > > What, you mean the driver? No, it is built from source against the
> > > installed & running Fedora Core 3 kernel version 2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.
> >
> > No, your kernel is tainted because you loaded some otehr proprietary
> > module. Maybe nvidia?
>
> Yes, I did have the nvidia binary kernel module loaded. After removing
> it (not uninstalling; I just specified use of the X.org vesa driver
> instead and rebooted) I get the same behavior - including the Tainted
> notation.
Some other binary only module must have been loaded. The "P" in the
Tainted line indicates that the kernel was tainted by loading a
proprietary module.
Maybe you didn't do MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in your driver?
LLee
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