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From: David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 02:40:37
Message-Id: 20201214024022.z3h6clflnvtnn55z@grusum.endjinn.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 Hello,
2
3 On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
4 >dmesg |grep nvidia
5 > nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
6 > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
7 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
8 [..]
9 >Why this error message?
10
11 There is no error.
12 See <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taint#Verb>
13
14 -dnh
15
16 --
17 "The command 'man man' works fine, but 'man woman' produces:
18 No manual entry for woman." -- Constantinos Maltezos