Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Moore, Robert wrote: > >>Not only is the !Windows code path apparently untested for the most >>part, we have discovered many machines that simply do not work properly >>unless we report "Microsoft Windows NT" for the _OS string. > > Can you name some of these (broken) systems? > > Given that we apparently did not encounter this with our 2.6.5-based SLES9 > kernel so far, I'm a bit sceptical that many (if any) ia64 machines are > affected. The only ones I've seen have been i386. One was a broken irq routing mechanism in the !windows case. It's likely the case that there are no broken ia64 machines. But it's also likely that no ia64 systems read \_OS so why should it matter what we put there? I agree with Len, if you need to key off something OS-specific for Linux, use \_OSI. -- Nate - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Sep 13 18:24:57 2004
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