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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:39:28 -0600
From: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: Domian Validation (Re: 2.5.1 - intermediate bio stuff..)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112172210470.2416-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:12:21PM -0800
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:12:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> >
> > Translation: Andre has been in a few too many ATA meetings and can't think
> > without using storage industry insider-speak ;)
> 
> We know ;)
> 
> > I only had a 6 months internship in storage, but I believe what he's
> > talking about are sound engineering principles.
> 
> No. Sound software engineering principles is to design good interfaces,
> and make the low level code adhere to them.

Well, I may have mis-stated my intentions in the last email. What I want
to see is some mechanism and *code* to test these interfaces and verify
that the low (AND high) level code is actually adhering to the interface,
as well as attemp to isolate which side of an interface a failure has
occured on. I want fault isolation, and TESTING to make sure that any 
fault we have seen in the past can be detected with easy-to run code.

-- 
Troy Benjegerdes | master of mispeeling | 'da hozer' |  hozer@drgw.net
-----"If this message isn't misspelled, I didn't write it" -- Me -----
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