OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20562/Kerneloops_org_Records_its_100_000th_Oops Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:41:36 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337832 http://osnews.com/thread?337832 This is actually very nice. Too bad that fatal oopses can't be reported the same way ;-)

Interesting is that most of the oopses seem to come from binary-only parts (external blob drivers) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ford Prefect) Comments RE: Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337834 http://osnews.com/thread?337834

Interesting is that most of the oopses seem to come from binary-only parts (external blob drivers)


Is that unexpected when you have binary code targetting a constantly changing interface? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evangs) Comments RE[2]: Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337838 http://osnews.com/thread?337838
Is that unexpected when you have binary code targetting a constantly changing interface?

The problem is not the changing interface, but the lack of peer review. That's why Free Software drivers don't oops the kernel so much and they also have to deal with changing interfaces. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sodki) Comments in short http://osnews.com/thread?337845 http://osnews.com/thread?337845 [edit:sorry wrong thread]Edited 2008-11-20 10:11 UTC Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments RE[2]: Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337849 http://osnews.com/thread?337849 yeah , if they kept the interface stable, at least they could paint the screen Blue and print some hex numbers !!! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Yagami) Comments Typo http://osnews.com/thread?337854 http://osnews.com/thread?337854 have been fixes most of the top oopses quickly

Should read "have been fixing" or just "fix" ("fixes" if you wish to imitate the British english.) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments RE: Typo http://osnews.com/thread?337862 http://osnews.com/thread?337862 Not fixES as it's plural (the Intel developerS) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lord_rob) Comments RE[3]: Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337866 http://osnews.com/thread?337866 "The problem is not the changing interface, but the lack of peer review. That's why Free Software drivers don't oops the kernel so much and they also have to deal with changing interfaces."

The interface does change. The peer review helps, however the people writing the majority of the drivers for Linux are kernel developers, so would be aware of the changes. That is actually why free software drivers do not oops the kernel as much as binary. Please correct me if I am wrong, as I very well could be not being involved in kernel development at all. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DrillSgt) Comments RE[3]: Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337905 http://osnews.com/thread?337905 Yes, the lack of peer review would definitely explain why nVidia has delivered the best OpenGL driver for Linux. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evangs) Comments RE[4]: Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337912 http://osnews.com/thread?337912 Most fully featured perhaps, but it's hardly the most stable driver, which is after all what's being discussed here. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments RE: Typo http://osnews.com/thread?337913 http://osnews.com/thread?337913 just 'fixing'. 'fix' and 'fixes' would both be wrong in that context. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments RE[4]: Good Job! http://osnews.com/thread?337973 http://osnews.com/thread?337973 Nvidia driver has bugs for years, seen what happened to kde 4 when tried to deliver a better accelerated desktop. You may say that was kde bug but there are proof on the contrary. If it was a open driver it would be fixed at the month Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aunzim) Comments