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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 01:45:12 +0200
From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@ragnar-hojland.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:50:55AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> drevil@warpcore.org said:
> >  What I am advocating is a little bit more sanity. The OS should not
> > break compatability with existing drivers so often for a 'stable'
> > release.
> 
> Name a driver in the 2.4.13-pre6 tree which doesn't compile and work with 
> the 2.4.13-pre6 kernel. 

Mitsumi (non-IDE CDROMs), broke at the 2.3.41-pre3 and 2.3.41-pre4
transition, and IIRC was still broken at 2.4.0 .. haven't got the drive here
so I can't test.

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