On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:34:06PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:59:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:03:07PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > > Unless there are technical problems, for instance, tg3 oopses > > > all the time on arm (i made that up), it should either be on > > > or off uniformly for all achitecturs. The licencing battle > > > should be done at the source level - if its in our tree > > > then its fair game to be turned on. > > > > Oh, so you mean it is only off because of the split-config bug you mentioned > > earlier ? > > No that is not what I mean at all. > > What I mean is: > It should either be on or off for all achitectures. > The only exception should be if it is broken on a particular > architecture.
What i was saying, is that someone probably used it to turn it on for all, and powerpc was missed due to the split-config bug, but then maybe i am wrong, anyway, go ahead and enable it. > And: > If, from a licencing point of view, it can be included in the > source that we ship, then it can be provided as a binary module. > If the licencing is such that we can't provide a module, > we should move it into the nonfree package (which probably > doesn't exist in the archive yet). Indeed, but Andres has reenabled it in the main packages, so ... > Problems with split-config are tangential, they affect managing > the config, but not what the config should look like. Euh ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
