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To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option
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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:09:12 -0300
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On May 26, 2008, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:

> On Monday 26 May 2008 05:13:18 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On May 25, 2008, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > One additional thing is to make sure the usability of the whole stuff
>> > is not reduded.
>> 
>> Removing support for slashes wouldn't reduce usability.  It would be
>> no more than silly policy (and ego?) enforcement.

> I the other mail you say that the string is _not_ a filename.

I do, and I stand by that claim, that is not backed by documentation,
but rather by peeking at the implementation.

> So why do we want to remove the slash from the allowed charset, if
> the string is not a filename?

Exactly my point.  I don't know any reason to do that.  It appears to
be just silly policy (and ego) enforcement.

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