Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)

Alan Cox
2002-01-14T23:17:24Z

> > Because the GPL says he's entitled to them ?
>
> You miss my point. Sure he's entitled to them. But why should he
> *have to have them*? They're extra state which, in the presence
> of a proper autoconfigurator, he doesn't need.

You have it backwards. The _autoconfigurator_ is extra state which in the
presence of the config he doesn't need