Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:37:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:37:41 -0400 Received: from tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.33]:30984 "EHLO tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:37:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:37:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Jesse Pollard Message-Id: <200110231237.HAA16435@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> To: drevil@warpcore.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.2b] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --------- Received message begins Here --------- > > 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. I > also find it interesting that people think NVidia is the sole company in control > of whether or not ther drivers are opened considering SGI and other 3rd parties > own code in the 'driver pie'. This is a simplistic naive view IMHO.... > - Not really. Driver writers have always had to provide updates if/when other parts of the kernel evolved. Especially if they inadvertently depended on a bug in that other part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own. - 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/