Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261906AbTENPpq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 11:45:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262032AbTENPpq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 11:45:46 -0400 Received: from babsi.intermeta.de ([212.34.181.3]:3336 "EHLO mail.intermeta.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261906AbTENPp2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 11:45:28 -0400 Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? From: Henning Schmiedehausen To: Dave Jones Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030514144443.GA7203@suse.de> References: <200305131114_MC3-1-38B0-3C13@compuserve.com> <20030514144443.GA7203@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20f=C3=BCr?= Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-Id: <1052927883.18046.86.camel@forge.intermeta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 14 May 2003 17:58:03 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -32.4 () EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_XIMIAN Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1395 Lines: 37 Using a "2.5.xxx" number was a bad example. Consider it replaced by "2.4.17" and "2.4.18". Regards Henning On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 16:44, Dave Jones wrote: > 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 -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire - 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/