Kernel 2054 breaks nvidia.ko loading

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Thu Mar 16 15:04:03 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:24 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:02 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 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).
> > 
> > 
> 
> Well, this is a rather trivial bug (as opposed changing kmalloc to
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL ;)) but in the end of the day, it is -our- bug and we
> (as in the fedora community) should be the one to fix it.

actually that's debatable... since their driver SHOULD be GPL :)
but lets not go there, that's for courtrooms instead




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