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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 02:36:59 +0100
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
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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

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