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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