Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm1

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 12:36:36 EST


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:28:10PM -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:45, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > +tune-vmalloc-size.patch
> > >
> > > This one of course breaks nvidia's binary driver; so nvidia users should
> > > do a "patch -Rp1" to revert it.
> >
> > eh why how ?? what evil stuff is nvidia doing this time ?
>
> On modprobe it says: "__VMALLOC_RESERVE undefined symbol". I'm almost sure is
> an #include thing, but since I know near to nothing about the kernel
> internals, I prefer to revert the patch.

I would consider it REALLY weird for a module to use detailed vmalloc
knowledge like this. Does anyone know what they are doing?????

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