Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261459AbTITPNg (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:13:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261898AbTITPNg (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:13:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:19594 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261459AbTITPNf (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:13:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:13:32 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger? Message-ID: <20030920151332.GA18387@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Andrea Arcangeli , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030919191613.36750de3.bless@tm.uka.de> <20030919192544.GC1312@velociraptor.random> <20030919203538.D1919@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030919200117.GE1312@velociraptor.random> <20030919205220.GA19830@work.bitmover.com> <20030920033153.GA1452@velociraptor.random> <20030920043026.GA10836@work.bitmover.com> <20030920142314.GA1338@velociraptor.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030920142314.GA1338@velociraptor.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 26 On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I refuse to use closed software myself for my critical tasks true, > but I've never said closed software is bad. Really? So where's the source to the BIOS of your machine? Your drive firmware? Do you drive a car? Turn on a microwave? Use a cell phone? And didn't you say: > I may have said sometime that binary only drivers are bad but that's > just because of the pain they give after you recompile a kernel, and I > change the kernel very often ;). So if you don't use closed source then why is it that those binaries are giving you a problem? Could it be that you don't practice what you preach? Oh, I see, it's OK to use closed source if you need to play quake but not if you want to check in some code. Sure, I can see how that makes sense. NOT. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/