On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 20:38 +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote: > >> Not really. This will probably be used mostly on embedded systems > >> where users don't have much to say as far as hardware included on the > >> platform is concerned, etc. Once a phone, tablet, etc. is released > >> users will have little need for customising those strings. > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:19:08 +0200, Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You can't assume that user won't want to reflash their own kernel on the > > device. Your assuming way too much. > > If user is clever enough to reflash a phone she will find the strings > easy especially that they are provided from: (i) bootloader which is > even less likely to be reflashed and if someone do reflash bootloader > she is a guru who'd know how to make the strings; or (ii) platform > defaults which will be available with the rest of the source code > for the platform. Your, again, assuming all sorts of stuff .. On my phone for example it is very easy to reflash, personally, I think most devices will be like that in the future. so you don't _need_ to be clever to reflash the device. > > If you assume they do want their own kernel then they would need this > > string from someplace. If your right and this wouldn't need to change, > > why bother allowing it to be configured at all ? > > Imagine a developer who needs to recompile the kernel and reflash the > device each time she wants to change the configuration... Command line > arguments seems a better option for development. So make it a default off debug configuration option .. Daniel -- Sent by an consultant of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>