Re: Options depending on STANDALONE

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:51:27PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
 > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:49:08PM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:
 > > I've advised SuSE many times that they should not be shipping it,
 > > as it means that their supported OS is running on modified firmware --
 > > which, by definition, they can not support.  Indeed, one could view
 > > this method as couter-productive to the evolution of Linux --
 > > since it is our stated goal to run on the same machines that Windows
 > > runs on -- without requiring customers to modify those machines
 > > to run Linux.
 > 
 > Ok, if it's your position that we should not support this, I'll see what
 > I can do to remove it from our kernel tree...
 > 
 > If there are any other patches that we are carrying that you (or anyone
 > else) feel we should not be, please let me know.

It's somewhat hard to tell when the source rpm's don't match the binaries.
See ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/x86_64/HEAD for example,
and notice the lack of 2.6.18rc3 source, just 2.6.16.  Or am I looking
in the wrong place ? (The other arch's all seem to suffer this curious problem).

		Dave




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