From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Dave Jones" <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
       "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 12:40:51 -0700
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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.

	This is why I think it only makes sense to certify a product that either
provides a source code driver or sufficient documentation to allow someone
to write one. Even if the driver is bugfree, you still have to be able to
debug around it.

	DS


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