Re: kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:37:59AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
 > On Mar 25, 2008, Dave Jones <davej redhat com> wrote:
 > 
 > > The kernel team is already buried alive in backlogs of bugs.  This
 > > serves to do nothing but introduce new failure modes unless it's
 > > done properly.  Hence my concern.
 > 
 > Honest question: what failure mode would you find it easier to
 > recognize, "module not present" or "module loads but doesn't work"?

If you remove or cripples someones scsi driver, both modes are "doesn't boot",
so it really makes no difference. Regardless of what you do here
you're making a works -> doesn't work transition, and differentiating
between the two is pointless from the eyes of the user.

	Dave

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