Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.2.5-15 aic7xxx problem? | Date | Sun, 18 Jul 1999 11:47:01 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> No, but it renders bug reports about them pretty much useless on _this_ > _list_. Bug reports for the official Linus trees and maybe Alan's tree are
Why ? I've got Red Hat and SuSE trees here for these specific reasons
> questions for those kernels should go to the vendors; the vendors can then > report issues here if they discover them to be in the official tree as well.
And 50% of messages get mangled or lost or passed down a chain of chinese whispers.
A _lot_ of people run vendor kernels. All the major vendor kernels are useful debugging points. All of them ship handy System.map files too.
> It's derived from the code that Linus makes available and has dubbed 'Linux', > yes. Can you imagine 'phoning up a car manufacturer and complaining about > some problem with the engine, and then adding "of course, I've customised it > myself quite extensively.."?
Since when has this been a manufacturers list ?
> I think so; there was a remark in one of Linus' posts a few days ago that > suggested Alan was dealing with 2.2.x patches; it makes sense, really: he > works for one of the biggest distribution vendors, so he's presumably going > to see a lot of bug reports.
The fact I work for Red Hat, and the fact I'm working on 2.2.11 stuff are two unrelated items as when I looked after 2.0.3x
Alan
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