 | | Re: Kernel tainting by HP System Health Application and
Insight Management Age | Re: Kernel tainting by HP System Health Application and
Insight Management Age 2005-01-26 - By Daniel Wittenberg
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I personaly have had pretty good luck with the HP drivers. The main
reason I load them is to find out when hardware fails (drives, fans,
etc.) Do people have another way to do this or do you just hope someone
notices the red light before the other drive(s) fail?
Dan
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:36 +0400, security wrote:
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> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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> | On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:00 +0100, Mimmus wrote:
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> |> HP reccomends installation of HP System Health Application and
> |> Insight Management Agents for RH3:
> |> http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22093.html
> |>
> |>
> |> During installation, it asks for breaking GPL license and
> |> tainting the kernel, otherwise some functionalities will be
> |> missing.
> |>
> |> It seems a bad choice to me.
> |>
> |> Any suggestion?
> |
> |
> | you can just not use them. The HP guys on this list will hate me
> | for saying this, but your system will work just fine without those
> | binary modules, you can sleep better at night about not doing evil
> | things to the GPL and we still see some cases where those modules
> | spontaniously reboot or otherwise crash the machine, symptoms that
> | go away when the customer consequently stops using them.
>
> I have try to install these "Tainted" modules (just for fun) .. and
> yes .. It make freeze the system after
> a few hours (on two Proliant ML350 G3)
>
> |
> | I don't know why HP has decided to not make those modules conform
> | to the GPL license, and maybe on of the HP people on this list can
> | expand on that...
>
>
> It's like IBM which build drivers for Tape and these drivers are only
> avaible in binaries,
> I don't understand why they don't publish the source ? or the src.rpm ???
>
>
>
> The evil binaries:
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/RHEL3/
>
>
>
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