Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time
Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time
Posted Dec 14, 2006 14:34 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)Parent article: Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time
I think it's an exageration to say that Linus came out against it. When Linus is against something, there's *lots* of ASCII _markup_ and mentions of NEVER NEVER NEVER and "fundamental" and "so lets not even discuss this".
Given that style, his actual comments seem like he's open to debate.
Posted Dec 14, 2006 16:01 UTC (Thu)
by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
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What he said was that he absolutely would not merge it "from the top down"; that is he wouldn't put it into his tree and in that way push it out to all the other distros, etc. He doesn't seem open to any debate on this subject.
He did say that if all or most of the vendors were to add it to their trees and support it as a "standard" add-on patch, he'd bow to the will of the majority and merge it, "from the bottom up", into his tree. But that he'd still think it was a dumb idea :)
I think it's an exaggeration to say he's open to debate :)Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time