> Coding IB applications is hard enough, let's not require it to be harder.
> We need a solution that fixes all the apps and makes it easy for future
> applications to have a sensible default behavior.

The mad interface is privileged, not some generic API available to any user 
space app.

> I think Mike's approach does that, minimizes risk, addresses 3rd party apps
> which may not be part of OFA, and has a path toward allowing sophisticated
> applications to control the behavior (few if any apps will really want to
> do that).

It breaks the ABI and existing apps that *do* handle BUSY replies.  We can't 
assume that no apps out there aren't written correctly. 

- Sean
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