Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:36:30 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Honest does not pay here ... |
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On Tue, 07 Jan 2003, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes: > > >> Until the manufacturers start providing good quality supported drivers > >> for their hardware, binary or source, linux will stay exactly where it > >> is now; a server room tool and a hobbyists playground. > > >> I for one think thats a real shame > > >Only that you can't trust in the el-cheapo vendors claiming Linux > >support, and an independent certification is needed (not only for Linux, > >for the *BSDs as well). Without a trusted certification, some crooks may > >try to claim Linux support and it won't quite work out. > > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-35/0559.html > > Dated 5. September 2001.
Close, but I hadn't meant signing in mind, but something like "we write we support Linux" when they only have 2.0 binary-only modules. I want the term "Linux compatible" to be certified, not soft- or hardware per se. Signing drivers is difficult, because of the said problems, and because a faithful and trustworthy vendor then has to have his stuff re-certified over and over.
I you happened to read the German c't magazine 1/2003 about RAID hardware and Linux, or the 2/2003 edition about TV cards, then look at the pertinent sections to know what I mean.
The other thing (Linus labs) is already there: module tainting... - 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/
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