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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:35:09 +0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "William A. Maniatty" <maniatty@cs.albany.edu>
Cc:        chuckr@picnic.mat.net, FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, asmodai@wxs.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, maniattb@cs.rpi.edu, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel
Message-ID:  <20000124173509.O2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001240744.CAA02021@richard.cs.albany.edu>; from maniatty@cs.albany.edu on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:44:43AM -0500
References:  <200001240744.CAA02021@richard.cs.albany.edu>

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On Monday, 24 January 2000 at  2:44:43 -0500, William A. Maniatty wrote:
> Hi There:
>
> Chuck Robey Writes:
>> I know where Mike's coming from.  Wait until the next guy posts on the
>> list "I don't really know how to program, but please tell what 'C' is, and
>> how to write a device driver".  We had a pretty nasty flamewar over that
>> maybe (I think) 9 months ago, and it still hurts folks, to be accused of
>> conceit, when the guy was asking a grossly unanswerable question, and
>> wouldn't believe it couldn't be boiled down to a 4 paragraph "device
>> drivers for dummies" thing.  Mike wants to avoid dealing with a horde of
>> folks like that.
>>
>> I can't really blame Mike, it's impossible to make people understand that
>> you can't boil everything down to a 30 second sound bite.  BUT I still
>> wish there was a map to interfaces.
>
> Ah!  I wasn't aware of this.  I would be somewhat thin skinned too,
> too many requests for a free lunch can be a problem.  On the other hand
> I still think: (i) I'd still like my student to take a crack at it,
> since he would pick up some understanding of kernel programming by doing it
> (a good thing!) (ii) the project might help motivated (and good) people
> pick up FreeBSD kernel programming and (iii) people can be pointed to
> the manual and told to return if they have a specific question.

These were pretty much exactly the reasons I thought of.  I was
thinking (iii) might be getting your guy to do the documentation :-)

Greg
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