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That's why people attempt abstraction

That's why people attempt abstraction

Posted Aug 13, 2011 11:44 UTC (Sat) by justincormack (subscriber, #70439)
In reply to: That's why people attempt abstraction by JoeBuck
Parent article: Avoiding the OS abstraction trap

Iscsi is not a device though, so that argument does not really apply.


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That's why people attempt abstraction

Posted Aug 13, 2011 12:42 UTC (Sat) by ftc (subscriber, #2378) [Link]

The article is not about an iSCSI (SCSI over IP) driver, it's about the Intel C600 series chipset SAS controller, which goes by the somewhat unfortunate name of isci (with only one "s").

isc(s)i

Posted Aug 15, 2011 20:08 UTC (Mon) by wilck (subscriber, #29844) [Link]

> the somewhat unfortunate name of isci ...
... indeed. This name has caused more confusion than any other driver name I encountered. It's sort of a running gag already.

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