fc5 will temporarily break non-gpl modules

Kevin Brown kevin_brown at qwest.net
Sat Mar 18 22:02:41 MST 2006


> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14009
> 
> Ok, so the nvidia driver is out temporarily. Anything
> else? ndiswrapper? mp3 or other multimedia?

mp3 and other audio/video codecs are not KERNEL modules.  The article 
specifically says the issue is known and a fix should be out a day or 
two after the release.  So, this would only affect nvidia, broadcom, 
some scsi raid devices.  NDISwrapper shouldn't as it is under the GPL.


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