On Mon, 09 May 2005 08:36:08 PDT, Erik Fichtner said:
And if they're not going to support it, they might as well not
ship it
in RHEL. Once you're running an unsupported configuration, one might
as well do it for free. ;)
Umm.. *every* vendor does this. You post to linux-kernel with an oops
that's tainted by the NVidia module, they'll ask you to replicate without
that module loaded. I place a hardware support call to Dell, and they want
to rule out any add-in PCI cards I've stuck in there myself. The IBM service
manuals for an RS/6000 start with (basically) "gut the machine down to a minimum
bootable config (ascii display, 4M memory, CD/ROM) and add stuff back till it
breaks again".
The *important* part is that if I have a *NON*-Selinux problem, I can still get
support. The only service call I had to make against RHEL3 was a botch in the
aacraid drivers causing a panic on SMP when insmod'ed at system boot. Would
have *royally* sucked if they had said "Won't support that config".
I don't see what the issue with RedHat saying "We won't answer questions if
it
looks like an SELinux policy that *you* installed is part of the problem".