From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.5.68] Scalability issues
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:05:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB66F8C.8050402@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030505075118.GA352@codeblau.de
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-05 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-04 17:39 [2.5.68] Scalability issues Felix von Leitner
2003-05-04 18:16 ` Michael Buesch
2003-05-04 19:44 ` Felix von Leitner
2003-05-04 20:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-05 7:51 ` Felix von Leitner
2003-05-05 9:51 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-05 14:05 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-05-06 18:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-05-06 20:36 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-07 0:22 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-04 20:34 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-05-06 11:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-06 11:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
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