Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:51:50 -0700 | From | Craig Milo Rogers <> |
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>Q: Would it be worth making the module author/version strings survive in >a non modular build but stuffed into their own section so you can pull them >out with some magic that we'd include in 'REPORTING-BUGS'
In a /proc file, maybe? A single file ("/proc/authors"? "/proc/versions"? "/proc/brags"? "/proc/kvell"?) could present the whole section. Alternatively, you could have one /proc file per attributed source file; I suspect that would be messier to code. In a modular system, would it be feasible to dynamically link/unlink attribution strings from a global list as modules are loaded/unloaded, and display linked attributions along with static ones in the /proc file?
Extrapolating from past behavior into the future: someone will submit code with a multi-page attribution string. It is likely that we'd need a formal policy on the length, content, and maybe even format of attribution strings.
Craig Milo Rogers
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