Re: 2.4.14-pre4 tainted + preempt oops...

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:13:33 +0000 (UTC)


In article <200110301018.LAA17404@lambik.cc.kuleuven.ac.be>,
Frank Dekervel <Frank.dekervel@student.kuleuven.ac.Be> wrote:
>
>i know oopses from tainted kernels are probably the result of a broken
>proprietary module, but this oops seems related with VM or preempt or so..
>the kernel was tainted with vmware and nvidia modules, i'll try to reproduce
>without them now.

Don't bother, just get pre5. It's a bug in pre4, no blame on vmware or
even nVidia.

Linus
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