Re: Runs with Linux (tm)

[Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>]

Jeffrey Hundstad writes:

> It might be possible to add a serial number to the logo, and keep a
> database that maintains a current status of the device in the Linux
> kernel.
> 
> Does this make sense?

Not especially.  To be accurate, it would have to be bumped every time
a driver is removed from the kernel -- or, more accurately, every time
the in-kernel API changes.  To be useful, such an increment would have
to only happen once a year or so, or else updating the packaging is
too much work.  Currently, the in-kernel API changes every month or
two, which means a driver compatibility serial number would be
inaccurate, futile, or both.

Michael Poole
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