linux-kernel - Re: Options depending on STANDALONE

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Message-ID: <20060803210130.GJ16927@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:01:30 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jack Lo <jlo@...are.com>, v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Options depending on STANDALONE

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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