Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | 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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