Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:44:43 +0100
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?
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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

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