Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264212AbUFRAJV (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:09:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264239AbUFRAJV (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:09:21 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:46776 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264212AbUFRAJT (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:09:19 -0400 Message-ID: <40D232AD.4020708@opensound.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:09:17 -0700 From: 4Front Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Andrew Morton Subject: Stop the Linux kernel madness 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: 2279 Lines: 53 Hi Folks, I am writing this message to bring a huge problem to light. SuSE has been systematically forking the linux kernel and shipping all kinds of modifications and still call their kernels 2.6.5 (for example). Either they ship the stock Linux kernel sources or they stop calling their distributions as Linux-2.6.x based. Kernel headers are being changed willy-nilly and SuSE are completely running rough-shod over the linux kernel with the result ONLY software from SuSE works. Enclosed is a simple diff between SuSE's so-called Linux 2.6.5-7.75-bigsmp and the Linux 2.6.5 kernel sources from www.kernel.org: Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S and linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/boot98/setup.S differ Files linux-2.6.5/arch/i386/defconfig and linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386/defconfig differ Only in linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386: defconfig.bigsmp Only in linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386: defconfig.debug Only in linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386: defconfig.default Only in linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386: defconfig.smp Only in linux-2.6.5-7.75/arch/i386: defconfig.um I would invite anybody to do a diff between the Linux 2.6.5 from kernel.org and SuSE 9.1's Linux 2.6.5 kernels. This is absolutely not our problem and we don't know who to contact at SuSE to fix this problem. Our software works perfectly with Fedora/Debian/Gentoo/Mandrake/Redhat/etc. I think SuSE's lying when they call their Linux kernel a 2.6.5 kernel when there are massive differences. They aren't even compatible with Linux 2.6.6. I urge all those who have the power to sway distributions to immediately fix their kernels so that small developers like us don't have to keep updating our software. This is worse than Microsoft's practices. best regards Dev Mazumdar President --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA Tel: 310 202 8530 Fax: 310 202 0496 URL: http://www.opensound.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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/