Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:30:01 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC |
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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@srcf.ucam.org
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