Re: USB driver issue

Alan Stern
2008-08-01T15:36:42Z

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:47:07PM -0500, Stalin Kenny wrote:
> > Felipe,
> >
> > Sorry to say but to say that one has to migrate to latest kernel in
> > order to get community support is not right....the statement does has
> > a touch of arrogance. You are not the spokeperson for the community.
>
> Um, yes he is.
>
> And so is everyone else who actually contributes to the kernel.
>
> If Felipe says he doesn't want to support anything but the latest
> kernel.org kernel for free, then that is what he is going to do. Why do
> you not believe him?
>
> Personally, that is my stance as well. And it's the stance of _every_
> other kernel developer who I know who contributes their time and effort
> here.

That last sentence is slightly overstated. I am certainly willing to
help debug problems on kernels that aren't the most recent
bleeding edge, provided they aren't _so_ old as to be completely
irrelevant. It's not uncommon to find that the bug in question is
still present in today's kernel.

Of course, if I recognize the bug as one that has already been fixed
then there's no point in doing any more testing or debugging.

Alan Stern