From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:04:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100622170410.GA22182@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100622175741.6541ff2a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-22 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-17 13:54 [PATCH] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag Prarit Bhargava
2010-06-17 16:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-17 19:54 ` Prarit Bhargava
2010-06-17 20:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-21 19:21 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-21 19:45 ` Don Zickus
2010-06-21 20:00 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-21 20:46 ` Don Zickus
2010-06-22 15:34 ` [PATCH v3] " Don Zickus
2010-06-22 15:48 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-22 16:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-22 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-22 17:04 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-06-23 3:06 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-23 3:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-23 20:00 ` Don Zickus
2010-06-22 18:58 ` [PATCH v4] " Don Zickus
2010-07-06 20:33 ` Don Zickus
2010-07-06 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-19 8:40 ` [PATCH] " Andi Kleen
2010-06-19 9:30 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-21 13:26 ` Don Zickus
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