From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 4 7:37:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A71C37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:37:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from qmail.endersgame.net (ip68-105-179-72.nv.nv.cox.net [68.105.179.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9002743E4A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:37:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dive@endersgame.net) Received: (qmail 13752 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Feb 2003 15:37:17 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:37:17 -0500 From: Sean Davis To: Terry Lambert Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org, jdc@nterprise.net, arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id, tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux Message-ID: <20030204153717.GB13622@endersgame.net> References: <20030124184914.E7F1C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <1044332953.4362.65.camel@lohr.digitalglobe.com> <200302040528.AAA01316@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <3E3F5710.D6F04347@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E3F5710.D6F04347@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:00:48PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: This is actually incorrect. At one point in time, the email > address of the driver authors was printed out in boot messsages, > under Linux. They had a "flag day" in which Linus removed all > the printf's. This flag day was actually commercially motivated. Some (many?) Linux drivers still print out the e-mail addresses of the author. I base this claim on the dmesg from a 2.4.something/alpha system I saw the other day. -- /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign Sean Davis X Against HTML aka dive / \ Email! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message