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On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:15 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > (In some cases, end-users send hate mail to the Linux kernel > developers when some idiot company's binary driver modules is buggy > and corrupts the kernel in hard-to-debug ways; one particular video > driver company is especially guilty here, and is viewed by some as > being directly responsible for the tainted kernel flags.) Wouldn't the tainted kernel flags be necessary even if there had never been a single bug in any binary driver, simply because there's still no reasonable way to debug a kernel with binary drivers loaded? Lee - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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