From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Srinivas_G_Gowda@Dell.com, tcminyard@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openipmi@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:30:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120629123001.GA26545@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k3yrgf4d.fsf@firstfloor.org>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:01:54PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Not sure that's all that useful. I can just see BMC's making the ACPI
> mistake of trying to work around specific issues, by checking for
> Linux.
>
> But since there are so many different Linux that will never work
> because "Linux" does not describe a fixed release or code base.
>
> Probably dangerous.
Agreed. Linux doesn't make interface guarantees to hardware, and where
we've implied that we do it's ended up breaking things.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-29 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-06-28 16:45 ` [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC Srinivas_G_Gowda
2012-06-29 0:01 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-29 3:06 ` Corey Minyard
2012-06-29 12:30 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-06-29 14:27 ` Corey Minyard
2012-07-04 5:11 ` Srinivas_G_Gowda
2012-07-04 12:17 ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-04 17:41 ` Corey Minyard
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