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SubjectRe: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft
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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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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