> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:56 +0530, ext Gadiyar, Anand wrote: > > > > Grr. Saying one needs to upgrade to the latest kernel before one can > > > expect > > > support is a bit like certain proprietary OS vendors - and even they do a > > > better > > > job than this. > > The difference is that an OS vendor usually sells also support. > > Even if it was confirmed that the bug exists in a "stable" version, the > reporter would be asked anyway to verify that it is present in the > latest code.
Yes. Except that the poor old OP would have a hard time getting the latest kernel to run on his hardware... :) (Actually, he shouldn't have much of a problem. So your point is taken). It would be nice if everyone were to migrate to the latest code, but does that really take away the fun of solving a problem? I agree we shouldn't try to fix something that, in all likelyhood, has already been fixed. But is it really so much of an effort for us to trace a problem without making the OP figure out how to get a totally new kernel running? Are we really this lazy? > Of course for TI the business is different, since TI does provide also > support to customers, but that doesn't imply that others have to follow > that model. Oh well! Just because one has a corporate email account... :) I guess it's time I started using a non-corporate account for work done in my spare time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
