Chris Jones wrote:
Also what makes you think anyone owes it to you to test *your* hardware for you before releasing updates - Fedora isn't RHEL you know, no support guarantees etc.
I don't agree.
If a developer makes a change which prevents the software working with some hardware it previously worked with, I think the onus is on the developer to warn the user of this.
If the developer doesn't realize that his modification will have this effect, he has made a mistake.
I very much doubt if anyone realized that going from 2.6.22.1-28 to 2.6.22.1-33 could have any adverse effect.