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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Priban <david2@maincube.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i2o & Promise SuperTrak100
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 02:36:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010301023659.F21518@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MPBBILLJAONHMANIJOPDIEBIFMAA.david2@maincube.net> <E14Xnz8-0003rQ-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14Xnz8-0003rQ-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:32:22PM +0000

On Tue, Feb 27 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> In theory however i2o is a standard and all i2o works alike. In practice i2o
> is a pseudo standard and nobody seems to interpret the spec the same way, the
> implementations all tend to have bugs and the hardware sometimes does too.

That's a pretty good description of standards in general, at least
when it comes to hardware :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-01  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-27 17:14 i2o & Promise SuperTrak100 David Priban
2001-02-27 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-28 18:26   ` David Priban
2001-02-28 23:10     ` Andrew Morton
2001-03-01 20:40       ` David Priban
2001-02-28 20:11   ` David Priban
2001-02-28 23:38     ` Alan Cox
2001-03-03 17:14       ` David Woodhouse
2001-03-03 17:37         ` Alan Cox
2001-03-01  1:36   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-04-09 13:07 Joao Paulo Martins
2001-04-10  7:22 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-10 11:22   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 11:25     ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-10 11:59       ` Joao Paulo Martins
2001-04-10 15:19     ` Chris
2001-04-12 18:33     ` Andrew Chan
2001-04-12 19:30       ` Alan Cox

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