[Bug 8853] No ECC support in the Ubuntu supplied kernel

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------- Additional Comments From pmjdebruijn at gmail.com  2005-04-18 17:18 UTC -------
Well, I understand the predicament. But you can look at this from another angle...

1. SuSE thought it was good enough for their Enterprise Product
    * if a serious bug is found in the ECC module, there's a good change that
      SuSE will patch their SLES kernel, from which you can then take that patch
      and apply it to the Ubuntu kernel.
2. ECC doesn't intrude into subsystems. The ECC module is just a reasonably 
   simple driver. Including it won't break anything else. Worse case
   scenario would be that somebody chipset's ECC support is broken in which
   case the user can simply _choose_ not the load the module, being no
   worse off than without the module included.
   But for the users with the supported/working ECC chipsets, they gain
   additional functionality, which actually be may essential for
   enterprise deployment of Ubuntu.

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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