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SubjectRe: Linux drivers management
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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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