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From: "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:26:28 -0300
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On 4/20/06, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:28:41AM -0700, John Ronciak wrote:
> > > The hardware is going to generally available in June.  There are also
> > > lots of OEMs, OSVs and hardware vendors that have the system to test
> > > on today.  The early rollout of hardware has been very large.
> >
> > As a start to get people actually interested you should stop talking
> > like a jerk and kill all these silly three-letter acronyms from your language.
>
> ??? For a community absolutely FILLED with everyday use of acronyms
> it boggles the mind why you would call someone names for using them.
>
> So if they were 4 letter ones it would make him a savant instead??

hch is not complaining about TLA usage, he is complaining about _silly_ TLAs
usage, as in to justify new feature acceptance in mainline.

- Arnaldo