Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

From: Kenneth Aafløy
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 21:49:45 EST


On Thursday 29 April 2004 04:36, you wrote:
> Marc Boucher wrote:
> > Hi Rik,
> >
> > Your new proposed message sounds much clearer to the ordinary mortal and
> > would imho be a significant improvement. Perhaps printing repetitive
> > warnings for identical $MODULE_VENDOR strings could also be avoided,
> > taking care of the redundancy/volume problem as well..
>
> Is this worth 100 or 200 bytes of code though?
> I'd have to say no.

1000-2000(?) instructions to display the message and some x(?) instructions to
check if it's been reported before, yeah, i'd have to say no too. ;)

Kenneth
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