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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The burden of special casing for bizarre hardware should not fall on 
> /sane/ drivers and hardware, who should be the ones opting _out_ of the 
> standard regime.

opting out refers to the bizarre hardware, of course.

Poor sentence construction.  Sometimes I myself wonder if English is my 
primary language...

	Jeff