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Why NDISwrapper special case?
Why NDISwrapper special case?
Posted Mar 7, 2008 17:52 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: Why NDISwrapper special case? by ldo
Parent article: NDISwrapper dodges another bullet
The NDISwrapper developers did exactly that. The module *does* set the taint flag as soon as it loads an NDIS driver. As I recall it some whiny RedHat guy pushed the special check in because he was getting bug reports from kernels using *old* versions of ndiswrapper and he figured it was easier to change the kernel than to get users to update their perfectly working ndiswrapper versions.
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