-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>>Well, we have an unmaintained spec on one side that can't even be >>>ordered from IEEE anymore and actual imlementations that work today, >>>what do you chose ? ;) >> >>I choose the spec. If an implementation is not conformant to the spec, >>it doesn't "work". >> >>Not to say that Linux doesn't have to work around bugs in actual >>implementations, of course. And there's a lot of those. Too bad ;-) > > > Yah, well.. ok, let's say we have a spec... and an implementation that > represents about 90% of the machines concerned. Those 90% have the > "bug"... what do you chose ? :) > > The separator in "compatible", afaik, is \0, not space btw. > > On possibiliy would be to have the kernel replace spaces with > underscores for the sake of matching. That would make life easier for > everybody.
I had suggested this a few days ago, but got no response. Can we agree that this would be an acceptable solution? - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SuSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCNauDLPWxlyuTD7IRAt+IAJ9mJRrrYT5trhv03qbGGPrwIwosqwCgpLS6 K/xQZE+dB4BPZc+R/FW74Nw= =9Pgi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
