Re: [2.5.68] Scalability issues

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Mon, 05 May 2003 10:05:00 -0400


Felix von Leitner wrote:
> Thus spake David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com):

>>Either reproduce without the nvidia module loaded, or take
>>your report to nvidia.
>>
>
> Thank you for this stunning display of unprofessionalism and zealotry.
> People like you keep free software alive.

He may not have put it as politely as you would like, but there really is no way
to debug a problem in a kernel which has been tainted by binary-only drivers.
That driver could have done literally anything to the kernel on loading.

Chris

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