RE: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?

David Schwartz
2003-05-14T19:28:08Z

> 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.

This is why I think it only makes sense to certify a product that either
provides a source code driver or sufficient documentation to allow someone
to write one. Even if the driver is bugfree, you still have to be able to
debug around it.

DS