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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:24:00 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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To: Grigor Gatchev <grigor@serdica.org>
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Subject: Re: A Layered Kernel: Proposal
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Grigor Gatchev wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>Is my description of Linux's device model accurate?  Sure.  Is it
>>useful in terms of telling us what we ought to do in order to improve
>>our architecture?  Not really.  It's just a buzzword-compliant,
>>high-level description which is great for getting great grades from
>>clueless C.S. professors that are more in love with theory than
>>practice.  But that's about all it's good for.
> 
> 
> You mean that, for example, drawing house elements on paper, and tossing
> some numbers here and back is useless in deciding how to build a house,
> and only getting hands to the real bricks gives you whether this wall
> should be here, and whether that column is thick enough to survive through
> a quake?

You are saying you should build a house with walls.  They're asking for 
a schematic (function prototypes), not to build the house yourself (not 
to code it all yourself).

Oh yeah and what Timothy Miller said! :-D

Mike
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