From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:44:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514144443.GA7203@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9timt$e3m$3@tangens.hometree.net>
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:09:33PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> >From a user land perspective, only major Linux vendors or
> organizations could enforce such a logo program, it would cost wads of
> cash and it will really suck if you currently run the certification
> process for Linux 2.5.102 for your driver and right before you're
> done, 2.5.103 is released and you have to start all over again.
Certifying anything against a development series kernel is completely
pointless. Breakage outside the driver itself could have adverse
affects. Example: For the last dozen or so kernels, the i845 AGP driver
crashed on exiting X. Turned out to be a VM bug.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 15:12 What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-13 20:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-05-14 2:12 ` jw schultz
2003-05-14 7:57 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-14 17:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-05-17 16:05 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-18 1:39 ` jw schultz
2003-05-18 3:53 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-05-18 21:49 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-18 22:20 ` Neale Banks
2003-05-19 10:20 ` Helge Hafting
2003-05-14 14:11 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 15:29 ` Mike Dresser
2003-05-15 0:11 ` jw schultz
2003-05-14 14:09 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 14:44 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-05-14 15:58 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14 16:14 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-14 19:40 ` David Schwartz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-13 13:16 Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-05-13 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-13 14:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-13 15:07 ` Lionel Bouton
2003-05-13 16:45 ` Jonathan Matthews
2003-05-13 13:46 ` Duncan Sands
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