Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module

Charles Cazabon (linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org)
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:43:02 -0600


drevil@warpcore.org <drevil@warpcore.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:24:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Only Nvidia can help you
>
> With a problem caused by someone else and not them? Interesting viewpoint.

No, just pragmatism. If you have a binary-only module loaded and
encounter any sort of bug (whether apparently related to that module or
not), the module author/publisher is the only one who can help.

It's a matter of who has the source code.

Charles

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Charles Cazabon                            <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
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