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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
