From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 12:05:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16C137B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A9543FCB for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5IJ5IBE042800; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:05:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:00:32 CDT." <20030618190032.GG10127@over-yonder.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:05:18 +0200 Message-ID: <42799.1055963118@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Meta: explain what where when? (was Re: userland access to devices is moving!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:05:21 -0000 In message <20030618190032.GG10127@over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: >> I do on the other hand not think that emails to arch@ is the best forum >> for the in-depth explanations. > >Oh, absolutely! And to understand an in-depth explanation, I'd have to >dig into the code anyway to understand it. > >I was aiming more at a throwaway statement like, "This will clean up a >lot of code and make it easier to understand and debug," or [...] Ahh, ok. Yeah, I guess we have a tendency to write with the usual suspects as implied target. I'll try to remember that. >> The "blueprint" articles which I am trying to restart in DĉmonNews >> may not be either, but I think they are more the right kind of >> forum for it. I am still warming up to the article format, and the >> amount of feedback so far has not really given me any feel for how >> complex issues I can tackle without the readers just skipping the >> article. > >That's an interesting way to go, and certainly something worthwhile. >Poking at the site now, I see the one from May on userland/kernel >interfaces; has there been more? I hope the next one is in the pipeline... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.