Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?


> Although I like the idea of making the vendors of binary modules
> really aware of the costs they introduce with regard to debug issues
> on tainted system, if I was them, the first thing I would say is
> "contact the vendor of the part of the system that changed", i.e. the
> kernel.

the good ones don't, and investigate. The bad ones... do you really want
their code in your kernel??


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