Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 15:44:43 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | 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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