On 08/10/2017 04:06 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2017-08-10 at 09:09 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> No device support in Linux is unsupported, sorry. I think we're >> getting into the corporate bullshit game a little too much here. > > I think there are two different definitions of supported here. To us, > any device to which the driver attaches is "supported". However, if > it's never been tested before it may not work very well. In the Linux > way, we'll try to fix the bugs when they're reported and in that sense > we support the device until nothing in the kernel attaches to its ids > anymore. > > In the corporate world "supported" means we'll sell you a contract > giving you certain rights to report bugs and have us fix them. There > are definite reasons why corporations only support a small range of new > devices, even though devices not on this list may still be attached to > by the driver and thus we (Linux Community) would try to fix the bug > reports for. > > I think what you're basically asking for is a different name for the > flag, which is fine? how about 'legacy' instead? > Sure, no problem with that. Don? Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
