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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 05:57:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> And then as I said originally the example given was not even
> "unsupported hardware" for an obvious Red Hat definition of the two
> because it was actually about firmware combinations on specific boards -
> ie it was an unsupported configuration.

The two examples given were:

"a distribution may want to support PPC but not the Power5 chipset, or
the e1000e driver but not a card with a specific DeviceID because of
known firmware issues."

In both those cases it's specific hardware that's unsupported, not the
configuration.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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