In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Unfortunately, this new security fix breaks the binary-only gigabit ethernet >driver. That's what stable kernel interfaces are for. Actually I don't recall _any_ change in a stable kernel that broke any kernel-interface. Ok, you have this problem with development-kernels, but a production system shouldn't be built on that anyway. I can't say if there are any license problems with binary-only kernel modules, but the horror-scenario that you propose shouldn't occur with stable kernels, so it is no argument against binary-only modules. BTW: when a company decides to build their productive environment on a open-source system like linux, they should really use their brain and choose hardware that has open-source drivers. Actually the open source is _one_ of the arguments pro such a system, so it sounds really stupid to drop this idea on something as important as a kernel-level driver module! This shouldn't say that I would find binary-only drivers any good - actually I won't use them. bye, Georg -- http://www.westfalen.de/hugo/
