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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: 2.4.14-pre4 tainted + preempt oops...
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:13:33 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <200110301018.LAA17404@lambik.cc.kuleuven.ac.be>,
Frank Dekervel  <Frank.dekervel@student.kuleuven.ac.Be> wrote:
>
>i know oopses from tainted kernels are probably the result of a broken 
>proprietary module, but this oops seems related with VM or preempt or so..
>the kernel was tainted with vmware and nvidia modules, i'll try to reproduce 
>without them now.

Don't bother, just get pre5. It's a bug in pre4, no blame on vmware or
even nVidia.

		Linus
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