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From: Charles Cazabon <linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:43:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011022164302.C4012@qcc.sk.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110221846.f9MIkE416013@riker.skynet.be> <E15vlcJ-0003E5-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20011022172742.B445@virtucon.warpcore.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011022172742.B445@virtucon.warpcore.org>; from drevil@warpcore.org on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:27:42PM -0500

drevil@warpcore.org <drevil@warpcore.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:24:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Only Nvidia can help you 
> 
> With a problem caused by someone else and not them? Interesting viewpoint.

No, just pragmatism.  If you have a binary-only module loaded and
encounter any sort of bug (whether apparently related to that module or
not), the module author/publisher is the only one who can help.

It's a matter of who has the source code.

Charles
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Charles Cazabon                            <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-22 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-22 18:45 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module jarausch
2001-10-22 18:51 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-22 18:51 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-22 19:35 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-22 19:46   ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-22 19:53     ` Daniel T. Chen
2001-10-22 19:53 ` 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module, or not? Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-10-22 20:24 ` 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module Alan Cox
2001-10-22 22:27   ` drevil
2001-10-22 22:43     ` Charles Cazabon [this message]
2001-10-22 22:46     ` Doug McNaught
2001-10-22 22:50     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23  1:31       ` drevil
2001-10-23  1:43         ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-10-23  2:16           ` drevil
2001-10-23  4:44             ` Nicholas Knight
2001-10-23  5:06               ` Cort Dougan
2001-10-23 11:36                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-23 16:13                 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23  5:08               ` drevil
2001-10-23  5:18                 ` J Sloan
2001-10-23  5:59                 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-10-23  7:21                 ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-23  5:35           ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-10-23 16:16             ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23  9:50           ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-23 23:45             ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-10-23  7:57         ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 14:18           ` drevil
2001-10-23 16:01         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-10-22 23:48     ` Jeff Golds
2001-10-22 23:53 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-23  9:05 ` Jesper Juhl
2001-10-23 18:07   ` Josh McKinney
2001-10-23 22:51     ` J . A . Magallon
2001-10-24 21:06       ` Reid Hekman
2001-10-25  0:19         ` J . A . Magallon
     [not found] <fa.fm7f5dv.1cn8eg6@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.hbvlhav.v369au@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <023001c15cf4$4fd5ecc0$1a01a8c0@allyourbase>
2001-10-25  4:15     ` Reid Hekman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-23 12:37 Jesse Pollard
2001-10-23  9:52 PVotruba
2001-10-23  1:50 BH
2001-10-22 18:45 jarausch
2001-10-22 18:45 jarausch
2001-10-22 18:45 jarausch
2005-01-13 16:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-13 16:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-13 17:25 ` Zan Lynx
2005-01-13 17:38 ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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