Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module

Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:37:47 -0500 (CDT)


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> 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. I
> also find it interesting that people think NVidia is the sole company in control
> of whether or not ther drivers are opened considering SGI and other 3rd parties
> own code in the 'driver pie'. This is a simplistic naive view IMHO....
> -

Not really. Driver writers have always had to provide updates if/when other
parts of the kernel evolved. Especially if they inadvertently depended on
a bug in that other part.

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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil

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