Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 08:55:45 EST


On Monday 26 May 2008 05:13:18 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 25, 2008, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > One additional thing is to make sure the usability of the whole stuff
> > is not reduded.
>
> Removing support for slashes wouldn't reduce usability. It would be
> no more than silly policy (and ego?) enforcement.

I the other mail you say that the string is _not_ a filename.
So why do we want to remove the slash from the allowed charset, if
the string is not a filename?
This doesn't make any sense. Either it is a filename/pathname, or it is not.

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Greetings Michael.
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