Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263305AbUCTKNI (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:13:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263310AbUCTKNI (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:13:08 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:27798 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263305AbUCTKNF (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:13:05 -0500 Message-ID: <405C191F.3020501@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:12:47 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linux Kernel , Chris Mason Subject: Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set References: <20040319153554.GC2933@suse.de> <200403200140.59543.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <405B936C.50200@pobox.com> <200403200224.14055.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040320095820.GC2711@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040320095820.GC2711@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 25 Jens Axboe wrote: > I agree with Bart, it's usually never that clear. Quit harping the > stupid LG issue, they did something brain dead in the firmware and I > almost have to say that they got what they deserved for doing something > as _stupid_ as that. I use it because it's an excellent illustration of what happens when you ignore the spec. > Jeff, it's wonderful to think that you can always rely on checking spec > bits, but in reality it never really 'just works out' for any given set > of hardware. "just issue it and hope" is not a reasonable plan, IMO. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/