Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:34:39 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:24:15 +0100
Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 22:34 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> > Stephen Hemminger wrote:.
> > >>
> > > I spoke too soon earlier, ndiswrapper builds and loads against
> > > current 2.6.24-rc3. Vmware and proprietary VPN software probably
> > > do not. Once again I don't give a damn, but the enterprise distro
> > > vendors certainly care.
> > ...
> > 
> > Naw, enterprise (or any other) distro vendors shouldn't have any
> > issues here, since they can just patch their kernels around any
> > issues.
> 
> Please pardon me for jumping in; 

> 
> What I think is that every time VMware or (worst) ndiswrapper breaks,

if you had read the thread... ndiswrapper doesn't break, and vmware
driver had some bugs that, once fixed, no no longer break either....


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