From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:34:39 -0800 Message-ID: <20071203073439.7fe05875@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <47515D39.9030900@rtr.ca> <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> <20071201163035.321fd554@freepuppy.rosehill> <475227B1.2060802@rtr.ca> <1196670255.4127.21.camel@rukbat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Lord , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org To: Romano Giannetti Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1196670255.4127.21.camel@rukbat> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:24:15 +0100 Romano Giannetti wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 22:34 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > > Stephen Hemminger wrote:. > > >> > > > I spoke too soon earlier, ndiswrapper builds and loads against > > > current 2.6.24-rc3. Vmware and proprietary VPN software probably > > > do not. Once again I don't give a damn, but the enterprise distro > > > vendors certainly care. > > ... > > > > Naw, enterprise (or any other) distro vendors shouldn't have any > > issues here, since they can just patch their kernels around any > > issues. > > Please pardon me for jumping in; > > What I think is that every time VMware or (worst) ndiswrapper breaks, if you had read the thread... ndiswrapper doesn't break, and vmware driver had some bugs that, once fixed, no no longer break either.... -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org