>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 12 01:48:25 1999
>From: Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> (A wholesale round of catching up. The things I miss by going to lunch!)
>Ha. You think you've got it hard! Try it when you live in
>GMT+10(+1). Get up the next morning and see several iterations of a
>debate :-(
Going to lunch now would be a bad idea ;-) it's 2 o'clock in the morning,
I am going to bed soon and cannot answer long mails now....
>> Let's look at it this way. CAM adds an extra layer of indirection
>> over a particular /dev entry being hardwired to a particular device.
>> The argument is about this layer of indirection. What functionality
>> does that layer of indirection get me in return for added
>> complexity?
>Jargon query: what's "CAM" stand for?
Common Access Method
See ftp.symbios.com
>> Second: What is the chance of this becoming mainline? I tend not to
>> code to interfaces that only a few users have patched in.
>Pretty good, I think. Last I heard, Linus was considering including it
>sometime in 2.2.x. He first wants to get 2.2.x stable before including
>it. What driver are you writing/maintaining?
This seems to be agood news.
J�rg
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