From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Mark Gross <mgross@linux.jf.intel.com>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:57:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040519225729.A28893@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ABB5E2.3040908@am.sony.com>; from tim.bird@am.sony.com on Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:30:42PM -0700
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:30:42PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> The non-normative section of this spec. explains where this was
> a problem in 2.4, and why it is desirable, from the standpoint of
> bootup time reduction, to avoid these busywaits.
In this case, it's really a bug that IDE is using a busy wait where it
should be using a sleeping wait. It's a bug, plain and simple. To
wrap the bug into "a spec" somehow seems wrong to me, especially when
it would be far better to report the problem as a bug.
Sure, specs make suit-wearing people happy, but that doesn't mean that
they're appropriate as a bug reporting method. 8)
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-19 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-17 19:05 ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft Tim Bird
2004-05-17 19:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-17 19:59 ` Tim Bird
2004-05-17 20:42 ` Mark Gross
2004-05-17 20:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <20040518074854.A7348@infradead.org>
2004-05-18 19:32 ` Mark Gross
2004-05-18 19:56 ` Russell King
2004-05-18 20:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-18 20:00 ` viro
2004-05-19 19:30 ` Tim Bird
2004-05-19 21:57 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-05-19 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-19 23:46 ` Tim Bird
2004-05-19 22:08 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-19 23:37 ` Tim Bird
2004-05-17 21:22 ` Tim Bird
2004-05-19 15:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-05-19 16:59 ` Tim Bird
2004-05-19 20:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-05-19 20:38 ` Tim Bird
2004-05-19 20:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2004-05-19 22:00 ` Russell King
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