Re: Question on device driver ? [OT]

In article <VsadnXdb_eshGGzbRVnyiAA@xxxxxx>,
Richard Heathfield <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm not overly interested in the opinions of trolls like Richard Riley, but
if we're talking RFCs, Chuck's sig is in excess of four lines; this is a
clear violation of RFC 1855, as has been pointed out to him on
sufficiently many occasions that he should have taken the hint by now.

Richard, I *know* you can read specifications better than that.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

- If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb
is no longer than 4 lines. Remember that many people pay for
connectivity by the minute, and the longer your message is,
the more they pay.


"Rule of thumb", not "MUST".

For example, "Rule of thumb is that integer representation in C
implementations will be two's complement" is correct: it doesn't say
that other things cannot validly happen, only that it is a good
-approximation-, "in the right ballpark", true sufficiently often
to be a useful starting point.

"Rule of thumb" is not a hard-and-fast rule. The Oxford English
Dictionary indicates,

1. A method or procedure derived entirely from practice or
experience, without any basis in scientific knowledge; a roughly
practical method. Also, a particular stated rule that is based on
practice or experience.

2. attrib.
a. Of methods, etc.: Based merely upon practice or experience.
Also in predicative use.
b. Of persons: Working only by methods derived from practice.
--
"law -- it's a commodity"
-- Andrew Ryan (The Globe and Mail, 2005/11/26)
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