Re: Kernel source

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:31 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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>>Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>I'm surprised... I thought fedora already came with the best driver
>>>for that hardware built in...
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>>Not every MAC+PHY combination is supported for the GPL NIC driver
>>(forcedeth) in the stock kernel or via patches to the kernel (addec
>>by Red Hat).  So sometimes you want to load the nVidia NIC driver
>>(nvnet) in the meantime until the GPL NIC driver (forcedeth) catches
>>up.
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>this is one of the reason such (illegal) binary modules are bad. People
>don't report or work with the open driver to get that one fixed, but
>rather just jump to the binary junk. But that way linux as a whole
>doesn't make progress and it doesn't get fixed for the future, giving
>again a crappy experience in the next release.
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What is 'illegal' about binary apps/drivers/modules/etc ?

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