Re: Newbie: ENBD on kernel 2.6 - kernel crash!

Peter

Peter T. Breuer wrote:

>>May 17 11:29:24 localhost kernel: EIP:    0060:[<0224694b>]    Tainted: GF  VLI
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>I probably can't debug a tainted kernel.  You'll have to reboot and not
>load the tainting driver.
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Peter, I looked this up. Notice the kernel output line:

"May 17 11:29:24 localhost kernel: enbd: no version for "struct_module" 
found: kernel tainted. "

 From the web:

"Perfectly normal. The modules you are inserting are not GPL, thus 
loading them makes the *kernel **no* longer fully "GPL'd", thus, it is 
"*tainted*". You don't have a problem, or at least, that message does 
not indicate any problem. If you are getting *no* other messages, then 
the module has loaded successfully (issue an lsmod command to verify, 
and/or check /var/log/messages to see what else it has to say)."

So it looks like the 'taint'ing simply means that the ENBD module is not 
labeled as GPL.

>Oh? Well, init oopsed. Half way through. Scatter some printk's through
>the routine and it should become clear where.
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OK. Will do...

Thanks
Roland