Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux drivers management | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:09:46 -0500 |
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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
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