Clarify Project Policy on Default Writes to NVRAM

[Michael Richardson]

Thibaut <hacks at slashdirt.org> wrote:
    > As I was pointing out earlier, how many users do you think actually «
    > reboot » their devices? (outside of OpenWrt devs, that is ;P)

none.

    > 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.

And a good scenario for causing multiple cycles of "it doesn't work" is
because of stale v6-prefixes :-)

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