Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753360AbXIAGkG (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:40:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751143AbXIAGj5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:39:57 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:58097 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbXIAGj4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:39:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:39:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "Robert P. J. Day" cc: Mitchell Erblich , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <000501c7ec26$c2b06140$6501a8c0@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 23 On Aug 31 2007 21:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >perhaps. all i'm begging for is that these attributes be defined >cleanly and clearly, and following those two conditions i suggested >earlier: > >1) all attributes are orthogonal to one another, and This "orthogonal" argument is reserved for the cdrecord maintainer; I cannot figure out what you mean by orthogonal. If A is orthogonal to B and B is orthogonal to C, then A is parallel to C. If there are more objects than dimensions, at least one pair of them is not orthogonal. That is what orthogonal means to me ;-) Jan -- - 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/