Re: 2 thoughts. . .

Thomas Parmelan (tom@ankh.fr.eu.org)
Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:34:48 +0200


15 Jul 96, tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu (Aaron Tiensivu) :

> Does anyone else think it is in bad taste to have the kernel printing=
:
>=20
> printk("ufs_read_super: fucking Sun blows me\n");
> ?

Yes, here's a fix:

#ifdef CONFIG_BOFH
printk("ufs_read_super: fscking Sun blows me\n");
#endif ^

(sorry, couldn't resist!)

Now for the serious answer. I agree with you, while this kin=
d of
comments/messages look funny for some of us, they certainly are not fo=
r the
majority of users and may not be of good publicity to Linux... that'=
s why
the kernel shall be humorous but =ABpolitically correct=BB (kind of).

--=20
Thomas Parmelan -- Linux: the Penguin is FREE! -- tom@ankh.fr.EU.=
org

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