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Support for tainted kernel

Posted Sep 6, 2007 16:56 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Support for tainted kernel by ibukanov
Parent article: LCE: Linux, hardware vendors, and enterprise distributors

With Novell SLES all third-party modules are unsupported. It won't even auto-load GPL'd third-party modules unless you change a configuration file.

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Posted Sep 6, 2007 19:13 UTC (Thu) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

Then I wonder who installs those proprietary binary-only modules on enterprise kernels and why this is a problem at all? Surely this must not be Novell/RedHat customers.