Numeric participation on lkml discussions is not an indication of much.
If lkml accurately reflected the state of Linux and its userbase, Linux
would be the most crash-prone, bug-ridden, chaotic environment ever :-).
There's probably a lot of people (like me) who use distribution tools like
Debian's kernel-package to build and manage kernel packages. If you're
used to using the right packaging tools, it looks kind of silly to stuff
text files into the kernel in case they're deleted, instead of doing:
$ dpkg -x kernel-image-2.4.17_1.00.Custom_i386.deb ~/tmp/
$ cat ~/tmp/boot/config-2.4.17
The kernel is just a program, and this is a tools problem. You don't
see people arguing that cat's documentation should be moved into /bin/cat
in case administrators misplace "cat.1.gz".
miket
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