From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux drivers management
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:09:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139465386.30058.34.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060207221513.GA7394@thunk.org>
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:15 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> (In some cases, end-users send hate mail to the Linux kernel
> developers when some idiot company's binary driver modules is buggy
> and corrupts the kernel in hard-to-debug ways; one particular video
> driver company is especially guilty here, and is viewed by some as
> being directly responsible for the tainted kernel flags.)
Wouldn't the tainted kernel flags be necessary even if there had never
been a single bug in any binary driver, simply because there's still no
reasonable way to debug a kernel with binary drivers loaded?
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-09 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-07 4:42 Linux drivers management linux
2006-02-07 16:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-07 19:45 ` David Chow
2006-02-07 20:03 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-07 22:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-02-08 0:52 ` David Chow
2006-02-08 4:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-02-08 9:46 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-02-09 6:09 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-02-08 1:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-08 8:26 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-11 18:47 ` Andrew James Wade
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2006-02-06 19:30 Nicolas Mailhot
2006-02-06 18:31 Nicolas Mailhot
2006-02-06 18:56 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-02-06 19:02 ` Joshua Kugler
2006-02-06 19:17 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-02-06 19:39 ` Martin Mares
2006-02-06 19:56 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-02-06 19:53 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-02-06 20:04 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-06 23:52 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-02-06 19:21 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-06 19:46 ` Michael Krufky
2006-02-06 19:58 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2006-02-06 23:16 ` Gene Heskett
2006-02-06 9:45 David Chow
2006-02-06 10:05 ` Michal Schmidt
2006-02-06 16:50 ` David Chow
2006-02-06 16:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-06 19:45 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-06 19:46 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-06 10:08 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-06 16:52 ` David Chow
2006-02-06 17:03 ` Pedro Alves
2006-02-06 17:35 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-02-06 17:42 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-06 16:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-07 11:36 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-07 13:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-06 19:51 ` Greg KH
2006-02-06 21:38 ` Jim Crilly
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