Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?

Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-05-14T15:45:46Z

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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