On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 23:58:43 -0400 
 Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com> wrote:

 > Ideally, there should be no more unnecessary divergence of the APIs--it
 > would also be nice to work toward removing any API differences that there
 > are now (no matter where they came from, what discussions have taken place,

Tell that to the people who gratuitously change APIs when integrating
them into another system.

(Read: "I've given up on that since the bus_dma incident.")

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>