Clarify Project Policy on Default Writes to NVRAM

[Enrico Mioso]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 02:04:40PM +0200, Thibaut wrote:
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> > Le 23 août 2025 à 13:42, Christian Marangi (Ansuel) <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> > Il giorno sab 23 ago 2025 alle ore 13:27 Thibaut <hacks at slashdirt.org>
> > ha scritto:
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> >> As I was pointing out earlier, how many users do you think actually « reboot » their devices? (outside of OpenWrt devs, that is ;P)
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> >> Panics are pretty irrelevant because the elephant in the room is it’s either going to be power loss, i.e. « let’s unplug it » (or actual power loss, even) or « it doesn’t work, let’s turn it off and on again », at which point a reboot (or more precisely a *shutdown*) handler will be totally useless.
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> > 
> > Well then we should follow John idea and make it configurable. Maybe
> > we can enable it for eMMC by default?
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> Sounds good to me :)

I totally agree.
I think this is the sanest thing to do, because - in my view - the system should try to be resilient to what happens, not self-destruct slowly over time.
No, I don't think I am exhagerating here - for most devices, any write is just a step toward becoming ewaste, and in my opinion the user is the most entitled to decide on this matter, enabling/disabling this configuration as they see fit, depending on their tradeofs.
Having different defaults per technology is also sensible, being NOR so different from eMMC and so on...

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