Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The "Free" Kernel In Debian Squeeze

[Richard Stallman]

    That the kernel would include a session, build or release id as part of
    the hashed string, and it would provide userland with that string so
    that it would be included in the computation that searches for the
    firmware.

How could this be useful?  I just don't get it at all.
What could that user program ever want to do with a varying session ID
except ignore it?

    > You might as well "mangle" every name to `foobar'.

    Wel,l we currently mangle them all to /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ ;-)

Exactly the point.

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