Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754530AbXEFHQm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 03:16:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754699AbXEFHQm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 03:16:42 -0400 Received: from h80ad2754.async.vt.edu ([128.173.39.84]:49371 "EHLO h80ad2754.async.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754530AbXEFHQm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 03:16:42 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Nigel Cunningham , Arjan van de Ven , LKML Subject: Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 May 2007 10:56:09 BST." <20070505095609.GB9935@infradead.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1177998147.8981.16.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <1178031475.3448.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1178032456.13953.12.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <20070505095609.GB9935@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1178435773_3690P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 03:16:13 -0400 Message-ID: <18248.1178435773@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1574 Lines: 40 --==_Exmh_1178435773_3690P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 05 May 2007 10:56:09 BST, Christoph Hellwig said: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:14:16AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > if you want to ask questions about proprietary kernel stuff you're > > > better off asking the vendor directly, not lkml > > > > I did, but given that it the failure only appeared with a change of > > vanilla kernel version, I didn't think it was out of place to ask here > > too. > > No, it's still totally offtopic here. I'm not convinced it's *totally* off-topic. I'll agree that third-party binaries are on their own as far as active support goes, but I don't see that it's off-topic to post a simple statement-of-fact like "2.6.mumble-rc1 breaks " just so it's a *known* issue and people who search the list archives don't spend forever re-inventing the wheel. Also, it's quite *possible* that the binary module has tripped over a geniune regression or bug in the kernel. --==_Exmh_1178435773_3690P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGPYC9cC3lWbTT17ARAlIWAJ45KmWFmcjZZjFoIh0mf3ES1gByWwCff8YQ DnqzLf+q3hlyr5eprMyAtoE= =4A9E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1178435773_3690P-- - 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/