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. Anyways, I'm waiting for >2054 to be released before posting a message about in nvnews.com and the fedora forum. Hopefully most people will be aware of the problem come release day and lower the breakage rate. Gilboa -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list