On 26.09.2006 23:56, pedrocsort-e@yahoo.com wrote:
> I just updated OpenSuSE 10.1 and I had sensors running before this update.
> sudently it seems that after then kerbnel up-date
> from the original 2.6.16.13 to 2.6.16.21
> there is a kernel message that says (dmesg):
>
> hwmon_vid: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> lm85: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
>
> This was working before,

And it probably does still work.

> moreover: it is installed in the kernel source
> tree of the lattest kernel.

But not in 2.6.16.21, so there.

> How can I "untaint" this module

You can't, and moreover, you don't need to. It wouldn't change
anything for you. Just ignore that silly message. It's just Novell
abusing the Linux kernel taint mechanism for telling you: "Don't
come to us if you have any problems with this."

HTH
Tilman

PS: <personalgripe>
Had no end of trouble with this myself as co-maintainer of an
open source driver which SuSE all of a sudden decided to denounce
as "tainting their kernel" even though it is under GPL and all.
Nowadays my driver's README file has an additional paragraph just
for telling the users: "If you run SuSE/Novell please ignore their
silly taint message." But of course the complaints along the lines
of: "Your driver is tainting my kernel, why isn't it open source
licensed?" still keep coming.

Thank you, SuSE. NOT.
</personalgripe>

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