Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean?

Dave Jones
2003-05-14T14:31:26Z

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