Re: [Linux-ATM-General] [PATCH v2 1/1] solos-pci: Fix regression introduced by newest firmware

[David W. <dw...@in...>]

On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 22:11 -0400, MIke Westall wrote:
> I'll be the first to admit that (1) I'm a grouchy old guy who (2) first 
> programmed on an IBM 1620 and then on a 360  Model 30 with 32K ram.  But 
> why oh why do we need to use 9 byte string constants with per character 
> compare to decide if the device is up or not :-(

Because that's the interface that we get from the ADSL RTOS on the
device itself. It returns its status as a string.

Besides, it shouldn't be a per-character compare. I'd hope that on a
64-bit box it ends up being a 64-bit compare, followed perhaps by a
single byte compare.

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dwmw2