Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:03:29 -0700 From: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No Thanks for All the Help Message-ID: <1085695409.3232.374.camel@zircon> In-Reply-To: <1085610184.3232.250.camel@zircon> References: <1085610184.3232.250.camel@zircon>
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On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 15:23, Joe Kelsey wrote: > Gee, I ask a seemingly simple question about connecting a very simple > driver to the system and all of ZERO people chime in with help. > > The only thing anyone had to say involved something like "Read and > update isa_compat.h" and I can take it from there! However, noone said > that or anything else for that matter. > > It really upsets me because it seems that absolutely *no* documentation > exists for how to connect a driver to FreeBSD 4.x. Documentation exists > for 3.x and 5.x, but none for 4.x. Well, I did generate quite a bit of response to this particular message. Probably more than 90% of the response involved snide and sarcastic remarks about how no one should ask questions on the stable list and ever expect to receive an answer to them. A very small percentage of respondents actually offered sympathy and some even offered good ideas. I want to thank those few people who actually responded with non-sarcastic and non-snide information for their help. I also want to tell anyone who felt compelled to send me a snide or sarcastic remark that I have safely placed your response in the appropriate folder. > This mailing list just seems useless to me. You know, all anyone ever had to do was to answer my original request with a simple message saying please ask again on -hackers. Or simply point me at the particular file which contains the linkage code for old-fashioned device drivers. No one did this until I sent out my message complaining about how hard I find it to work in the totally unhelpful environment. I personally have years of experience working around many different environments, and the most difficult part always involves trying to figure out someone else's undocumented code. I specifically did not want to go down the whole isa module route as that adds an incredible amount of seemingly irrelevant cruft to a very simple device driver. Anyway, I have nothing else to say on this matter. /Joe
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