From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262031AbTEENx2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 09:53:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262131AbTEENx2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 09:53:28 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:24792 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262031AbTEENx1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 09:53:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB66F8C.8050402@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:05:00 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felix von Leitner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.5.68] Scalability issues References: <20030504173956.GA28370@codeblau.de> <20030504194451.GA29196@codeblau.de> <1052079133.27465.14.camel@rth.ninka.net> <20030505075118.GA352@codeblau.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com