Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 11:13:38 EST


> If the binary only module in question sticks with the "published
> interface" (as is required) isn't it a problem in Linux then?

But if it stuck the published interface it would work. Clearly. 8)

Thats the problem - nobody knows why it breaks, and its a complex driver
doing trick memory management hacks (or at least the older version I
got bored enough to reverse engineer a bit to look at the problems did) and
may well do other horrible things

Alan
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