[ltp] Re: Which distro will have the best ThinkPad (T60) support?

[Jon Dowland]

Aaron Mulder wrote:
> And if you wonder why that's relevant, refer to the thread "[PATCH]
> 2.6.17: Unload disks heads before powering down", which discusses data
> corruption and premature hardware failure, if you don't manually
> configure a bunch of stuff that SuSE does for you.  :)

My only question is, why is this patch in SuSE not in the mainline 
kernel? Is it,

a) SuSE have not submitted it in order to maintain a competitive edge

or

b) the patch is not of the required quality, or breaks other stuff


-- 
Jon Dowland