Device loading warning!!!
"Manoj" <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:18:20 +0530
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Hello, I'm using the following environment for testing the driver for my PCI card Linux : RedHat Linux 7.3 glibc : glibc-2.2.5-34 gcc : gcc-2.96-110 RAM : 256MB I reserve 200MB space for the kernel by making an entry in lilo.conf follows append="mem=200m" & use the rest of the RAM space for my device buffers Load the driver using "insmod test.o OFFSET=0xFDFF000" The driver is loaded successfully but it gives the following warning # /sbin/insmod test.o OFFSET=0xFDFF000 MAJOR=201 Warning: loading test.o will taint the kernel: no license # /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P test 10252 0 (unused) autofs 12164 0 (autoclean) (unused) eepro100 20336 1 ide-cd 30272 0 (autoclean) cdrom 32192 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] usb-uhci 24484 0 (unused) usbcore 73152 1 [usb-uhci] ext3 67136 2 jbd 49400 2 [ext3] What is the cause of the warning? warm regards Manoj