Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft

From: Russell King (rmk+lkml_at_arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: 05/19/04

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    Date:	Wed, 19 May 2004 22:57:29 +0100
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>

    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
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