Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261350AbTEMOyo (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 10:54:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261351AbTEMOyo (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 10:54:44 -0400 Received: from smtp-102-tuesday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.102]:10510 "EHLO mallaury.noc.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261350AbTEMOyn (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 10:54:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC10A2F.70109@inet6.fr> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 17:07:27 +0200 From: Lionel Bouton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? References: <20030513151630.75ad4028.skraw@ithnet.com> <1052830415.432.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 706 Lines: 19 Richard B. Johnson wrote: >If you really want it to work, try `insmod -f modulename.o`.[...] > Of course, don't do this unless you can live with the following : 1/ nobody will support you in this configuration. 2/ you have zero guarantee that your hardware will be supported in the future (what will happen when you upgrade to a new kernel with different interfaces and the vendor marketing folks decide that Linux support isn't a good thing anymore ?). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/