Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 May 2004 22:57:29 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft |
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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:30:42PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > The non-normative section of this spec. explains where this was > a problem in 2.4, and why it is desirable, from the standpoint of > bootup time reduction, to avoid these busywaits.
In this case, it's really a bug that IDE is using a busy wait where it should be using a sleeping wait. It's a bug, plain and simple. To wrap the bug into "a spec" somehow seems wrong to me, especially when it would be far better to report the problem as a bug.
Sure, specs make suit-wearing people happy, but that doesn't mean that they're appropriate as a bug reporting method. 8)
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