kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 18, 2008 4:07 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops by kirkengaard
Parent article: kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

This makes me feel a lot better about having removed the Atheros wifi from my ThinkPad and replacing it with iwl3945. The statistics remind me of the crash stats from the Mozilla project, which are dominated by Adobe Flash, Google Desktop, and various Windows antivirus systems. It's quite difficult to look through Mozilla crash stats to find something =not= caused by proprietary crapware.

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 18, 2008 14:29 UTC (Tue) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link] (5 responses)

There wasn't much need to do that. The in-tree ath5k driver is now proving to be stable.

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 18, 2008 17:26 UTC (Tue) by kirkengaard (guest, #15022) [Link]

Quite right. ath5k and the new ath9k are where the real action is, and they have been done in order that the binary-only HAL might be avoided. In fact, madwifi project is involved in all three, though the serious effort is apparently going into the in-tree drivers. They were just stuck with Atheros' decision about the proprietary HAL because of radio regulations, and the madwifi code was designed to work with the Atheros HAL. They're a good example, I think, of how solutions can be found to proprietary binary sections (as opposed to certain other binary-only "benefactors" of the community).

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 18, 2008 18:29 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] (3 responses)

Well it wasn't stable enough to make it into Ubuntu 8.10, so I tossed the hardware.

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 19, 2008 12:22 UTC (Wed) by Janne (guest, #40891) [Link] (2 responses)

The environment thanks you. We could always use some more e-waste!

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 19, 2008 17:14 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] (1 responses)

I've heard plenty of stupid proposals in my time, but keeping unworking peripherals in my laptop due to environmental concerns is in the 99th percentile of stupid.

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 25, 2008 13:49 UTC (Tue) by Janne (guest, #40891) [Link]

Instead of tossing it away, how about giving/selling it to someone who could use it?

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 18, 2008 17:32 UTC (Tue) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link]

ditto, times two.

kerneloops.org records its 100,000th oops

Posted Nov 19, 2008 8:50 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

I'm considering going the other way, iwl3945 -> atheros, simply because Intel requires non-free binary-blob firmware.