On Sat, 05 May 2007 10:56:09 BST, Christoph Hellwig said: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:14:16AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > if you want to ask questions about proprietary kernel stuff you're > > > better off asking the vendor directly, not lkml > > > > I did, but given that it the failure only appeared with a change of > > vanilla kernel version, I didn't think it was out of place to ask here > > too. > > No, it's still totally offtopic here.
I'm not convinced it's *totally* off-topic. I'll agree that third-party binaries are on their own as far as active support goes, but I don't see that it's off-topic to post a simple statement-of-fact like "2.6.mumble-rc1 breaks <popular-driver-FOO>" just so it's a *known* issue and people who search the list archives don't spend forever re-inventing the wheel. Also, it's quite *possible* that the binary module has tripped over a geniune regression or bug in the kernel.
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