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From: David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 03:40:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201214024022.z3h6clflnvtnn55z@grusum.endjinn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c50bfcf-d5d7-fd74-3eac-3c7948c8a27e@sys-concept.com>

Hello,

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>dmesg |grep nvidia
> nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[..]
>Why this error message?  

There is no error.
See <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taint#Verb>

-dnh

-- 
"The command 'man man' works fine, but 'man woman' produces:
 No manual entry for woman."        -- Constantinos Maltezos


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-14  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-14  0:48 [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel thelma
2020-12-14  0:52 ` thelma
2020-12-14  2:40 ` David Haller [this message]

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