Re: Kernel 2054 breaks nvidia.ko loading

[alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Gilboa Davara wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:28 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > In nVidia/ATI's defense, unlike previous FC/non-GPL problems (udev, 4K
> > > stacks, etc) the problem is not with the closed source drivers failing
> > > to follow the latest kernel trunk.
> > > Beside releasing their code under GPL (Which is a good thing(tm))
> > > there's nothing nVidia nor ATI can do to fix this problem.
> >
> >
> > this claim is incorrect, the workaround is trivial.
>
> I assume you mean "fixing" their driver by adding a copy of
> print_tainted function, right?
> Am I missing any other solution?

The nVIDIA driver does not build without patches anyways.  They need to 
release a new version real soon now to cover the changes for anyone 
running a new kernel.  (Not just for Fedora.)

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