Kernel 2054 breaks nvidia.ko loading

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Thu Mar 16 14:02:49 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:41 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:28 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > 
> > > In nVidia/ATI's defense, unlike previous FC/non-GPL problems (udev, 4K
> > > stacks, etc) the problem is not with the closed source drivers failing
> > > to follow the latest kernel trunk.
> > > Beside releasing their code under GPL (Which is a good thing(tm))
> > > there's nothing nVidia nor ATI can do to fix this problem.
> > 
> > 
> > this claim is incorrect, the workaround is trivial.
> > 
> 
> I assume you mean "fixing" their driver by adding a copy of
> print_tainted function, right?

that is indeed the most simple one (or even just an empty
print_tainted).





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