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From: "Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock@fibrespeed.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changed message for GPLONLY symbols
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:20:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011126212051.D30705@godzilla.fibrespeed.net> (raw)

Keith Owens said:
> I thought that hint was self-explanatory, obviously it was not clear.
> Never underestimate the ability of lusers to misread a message. insmod

Would it not be more productive to have a one-line notice with a 
tech-note number or reference to real documentation?  Then the user can 
type "man gplonly" or "less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/gplonly.txt" 
for the real scoop on all of the error possibilities.

Mind you, on this list, it could be just as controversial picking a
name for the text file.
-- 
Michael T. Babcock
CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd.

             reply	other threads:[~2001-11-27  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-27  2:20 Michael T. Babcock [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-13  2:50 Keith Owens
2001-11-13  3:01 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-13  3:20   ` Keith Owens
2001-11-13 20:54     ` Riley Williams
2001-11-13  6:12 ` andrew may
2001-11-13  6:39 ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-11-14  1:40   ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-28 23:02     ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-11-13 11:19 ` Skip Ford
2001-11-13 17:10 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-13 17:34 ` Tommy Reynolds
2001-11-13 18:04   ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-13 18:22   ` Sascha Andres
2001-11-13 20:50 ` Riley Williams
2001-11-15 18:11 ` Brian Beattie

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