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[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:24:19AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:16:58AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:21:08AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > > this is already wrong. The "athlon" hack is *WRONG*.  Athlon is a
> > > marketing name, it could just as well be a duron or a sempron.
> > > It was a mistake to put the athlon hack in uname (but hindsight is
> > > easy); it's imo very wrong to repeat that mistake.
> > 
> > Should I take it out?
> 
> hard dilemma in that it risks breaking existing stuff.... but if it wasn't
> for that I'd say yes.

It's not as if that would be the first time that stuff is broken by
depending on a bug.

If the hack is incorrect, then let it be taken out and broken
applications corrected.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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