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On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:

> mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... documentation is 
> pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work.

Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on these 
lists that I may have offended ... but ... having clean source code to a 
driver is not equal to a black box ... is it?  I don't believe I've once 
advocatged 'binary drivers' ...