From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:37:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:37:25 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:14066 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:37:13 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , chuckw@altaserv.net, Vipin Malik , Aaron Lehmann , jffs-dev@axis.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:35:40 +0100 Message-ID: <7953.993749740@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org torvalds@transmeta.com said: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Managers at places like Cisco see boot messages and it gets into > > their brains. They certainly don't all read the source code. > Quote frankly, I doubt "managers" read the boot messages. This is consistent with what Alan said. "read" != "see". I agree the messages can be ugly. But they don't do any harm either, and sometimes they're useful. Furthermore, I believe that if you enforce a policy of removing them, the direct result of that will be that GPL'd code is released back into the community far slower than it is at the moment. It's your choice, though. -- dwmw2