Jack O'Quin wrote: > ... > Many kernel developers opposed this. It *is* something of a hack. > But, no one has been able to come up with a better solution, and this > one at least looks safe. I expect it to be replaced by something > better in the 2.8 timeframe. Whoa... like in two or more years from now :-( Is there any extra reasonable lobbying the rest of us could do ? I tried the patches but my system fell over, probably for other reasons (nvidia etc). I hope to try again rsn. FWIW the -mm2 patch would not apply over a Gentoo patched kernel but a "normal" kernel, 2.6.10 + rc3 + mm2, would not load the nvidia-kernel (amd64) Gentoo ebuilt module. --markc
