Where is 2.6.32?
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Dec 31 20:14:44 UTC 2009
Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 12/31/2009 09:10 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> And leaves you with no Fedora patches and the disk performance
>> regression issues of 2.6.32. Also a tainted kernel which some
>> developers will ignore if you get a trace, etc.
>
> I thought it's only tainted if there are non-GPL modules compiled in.
> For instance, I saw the tainted message whenever I insmod'ed fglrx driver
>
You're right, I am assuming he was talking about the nvidia modules which are
not GPL, when he mentioned 2.6.32.2+Nvidia. So it would only me tainted if he
wanted to have graphics. Or the licensing may have changed, things are not the
same for long.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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