Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?

[Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>]

Using a "2.5.xxx" number was a bad example. Consider it replaced by
"2.4.17" and "2.4.18". 



	Regards
		Henning


On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 16:44, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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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