On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 07:52:55AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: ! On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM Peter 'PMc' Much < ! p...@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> wrote: ! ! > Sorry, what kind of "side attack" are You talking about? ! > ! ! Hot button political issue causing professional info warriors to launch ! harassment campaigns against members of the project. Needless to say, it's ! a bit stressful, even though I'm not in the main path of these attacks. You ! never know what the other fellow's day has been like.
Okay, then I'm probably not involved, since my political issues mainly circle about building bicycle lanes in our village... ! Also, I hadn't intended anything I did around the boot loader to be secret. ! I made a mistake in not documenting the change thoroughly enough, though ! it's easily remedied by building a custom loader. In hindsight somebody ! should have caught it. Well, from the viewpoint of the observer it appears quite strange: One finally finds this brief release note, which typically was skipped for irrelevance on first read, and notices that it actually is very relevant. Then one starts to wonder: sponsored by Netflix? This is not a development or bugfixing effort needing sponsorship. It is just changing a compile time option. Is Netflix now uncapable of compiling the sources by themselves with whatever options they would like to have? And do we all have to follwo along the changes they impose, only because they can wave with a chequebook? I do *NOT* say that would be the truth! It is just the THOUGHTS that come up from the available input (or lack thereof). In fact, I for my part have no idea what the majority of users might prefer to have in the loader. I don't even know any longer what the majority is actually doing. In the last century we had user-groups, we were meeting once a week, we talked about and knew almost everything - but this has gone away with the advent of "social media" :( cheerio, PMc
