From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:36:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:36:02 -0400 Received: from NS.CenSoft.COM ([208.219.23.2]:60934 "EHLO ns.centurysoftware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:35:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jordan Crouse Reply-To: jordanc@Censoft.com Organization: The Microwindows Project To: Holger Lubitz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:36:50 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <9hfter$9e7$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> <3B3C85FD.B018746D@internet-factory.de> In-Reply-To: <3B3C85FD.B018746D@internet-factory.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062908365000.25408@cosmic> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > After all - how often does the average linux machine boot? Once a day at > most. Mine usually run until the next kernel upgrade. But then again, > I'm not a kernel hacker, so this is to be taken more as a users point of > view. Don't forget that embedded devices boot much more often than their desktop counterparts, and they are most often used by people who definitely fall into the non-linux savvy demographic (like my grandmother). We use the Linux Progress Patch (http://lpp.FreeLords.org/) for our solutions. Despite the size that it adds to the kernel (a 240 x 320 image is a pretty big linux_logo.h file), I feel that it makes the kernel booting procedure more painless for the average user (and the hackers can always use dmesg to find out what happened). Jordan