From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030408AbVLGW3I (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:29:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030413AbVLGW3I (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:29:08 -0500 Received: from sanosuke.troilus.org ([66.92.173.88]:8646 "EHLO sanosuke.troilus.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030408AbVLGW3H (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:29:07 -0500 To: Jeffrey Hundstad Cc: Benjamin LaHaise , Lee Revell , Dirk Steuwer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Runs with Linux (tm) References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051205121851.GC2838@holomorphy.com> <20051206011844.GO28539@opteron.random> <43944F42.2070207@didntduck.org> <20051206104652.GB3354@favonius> <20051207141720.GA533@kvack.org> <1133982741.17901.32.camel@mindpipe> <20051207194746.GG533@kvack.org> <439760FF.3060605@mnsu.edu> From: Michael Poole Date: 07 Dec 2005 17:29:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <439760FF.3060605@mnsu.edu> Message-ID: <874q5k4k3z.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeffrey Hundstad writes: > It might be possible to add a serial number to the logo, and keep a > database that maintains a current status of the device in the Linux > kernel. > > Does this make sense? Not especially. To be accurate, it would have to be bumped every time a driver is removed from the kernel -- or, more accurately, every time the in-kernel API changes. To be useful, such an increment would have to only happen once a year or so, or else updating the packaging is too much work. Currently, the in-kernel API changes every month or two, which means a driver compatibility serial number would be inaccurate, futile, or both. Michael Poole