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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:07:50 -0400
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On 09/29/05 20:35, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And that's my point. Specs are not only almost invariably badly written, 
> they also never actually match reality. 

Linus, the world has changed around you.

Take a look at the SAS spec and then at a SAS chip
implementation, for example.

(We're talking abou T10 specs, right?)

> And that's way _way_ too common. People who ignore reality are sadly not 
> at all unusual.

You are saying I ignored reality?

> Talk about working code that is _readable_ and _works_.

http://linux.adaptec.com/sas/

	Luben