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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Serial Attached SCSI Driver Interface (SDI)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:47:59 -0500
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To: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Cc: "Tuikov, Luben" <Luben_Tuikov@adaptec.com>, SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, Eric.Moore@lsil.com

Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> For a) design flaw, probably, but a cross-OS standard is still better
> than nothing. One built-in design flaw is that a standard will
> necessarily be a subset of the needs of the users and the various
> management applications.

also, one problem with cross-OS APIs is that they are a superset not a 
subset.

	Jeff