linux-kernel - Re: BUG in free

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Message-Id: <1219315891.7813.388.camel@penberg-laptop>
Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:51:31 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: BUG in free_block (tainted)

Hi Peter,

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 00:49 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Aww, apparently the fglrx driver creates tons of SLAB caches with
> > really funky names for no good reason... Oh well, one more reason to
> > stay away from that crap and help out the nouveau folks instead ;-).

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 12:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> fglrx is the AMD/ATI binary evilness - the open source efforts are the
> radeon and radeonhd drivers. AMD/ATI are actually providing
> documentation and paying developers to work on the drivers.

Oh, right. I guess I didn't even consider anyone would still be using
the binary-only ATI crap now that we have proper open source drivers
available.... ;-)

		Pekka

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