Why NDISwrapper special case? [LWN.net]

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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