 | | Re: Kernel tainting by HP System Health Application and
Insight Management Age | Re: Kernel tainting by HP System Health Application and
Insight Management Age 2005-01-26 - By security
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
| On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:00 +0100, Mimmus wrote:
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|> HP reccomends installation of HP System Health Application and
|> Insight Management Agents for RH3:
|> http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22093.html
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|> During installation, it asks for breaking GPL license and
|> tainting the kernel, otherwise some functionalities will be
|> missing.
|>
|> It seems a bad choice to me.
|>
|> Any suggestion?
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| you can just not use them. The HP guys on this list will hate me
| for saying this, but your system will work just fine without those
| binary modules, you can sleep better at night about not doing evil
| things to the GPL and we still see some cases where those modules
| spontaniously reboot or otherwise crash the machine, symptoms that
| go away when the customer consequently stops using them.
I have try to install these "Tainted" modules (just for fun) .. and
yes .. It make freeze the system after
a few hours (on two Proliant ML350 G3)
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| I don't know why HP has decided to not make those modules conform
| to the GPL license, and maybe on of the HP people on this list can
| expand on that...
It's like IBM which build drivers for Tape and these drivers are only
avaible in binaries,
I don't understand why they don't publish the source ? or the src.rpm ???
The evil binaries:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/RHEL3/
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