From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 23 22:27:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles537.castles.com [208.214.165.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF1D152A0; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:27:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10110; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:35:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001240635.WAA10110@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bill Maniatty , Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, maniatty@cs.albany.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:39:21 +0800." <20000124123920.F2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:35:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I can't agree with Mike Smith that reading the code is adequate. It > certainly doesn't apply to newcomers, but it doesn't even apply to > seasoned hackers like Mike: the BSD style doesn't provide for adequate > comments, and so what you see from the code is mainly tactics, not > strategy. You miss my point; you don't want to be writing a driver until you know what you're doing. Documentation on an OS' driver interface won't teach you that; it's something that's really only ever gleaned from experience. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message