linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:30:01 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Srinivas_G_Gowda@...l.com, tcminyard@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, openipmi@...sta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:01:54PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Not sure that's all that useful. I can just see BMC's making the ACPI
> mistake of trying to work around specific issues, by checking for
> Linux.
> 
> But since there are so many different Linux that will never work
> because "Linux" does not describe a fixed release or code base.
> 
> Probably dangerous.

Agreed. Linux doesn't make interface guarantees to hardware, and where 
we've implied that we do it's ended up breaking things.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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