Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:35:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Bill Maniatty <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, maniatty@cs.albany.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel Message-ID: <200001240635.WAA10110@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:39:21 %2B0800." <20000124123920.F2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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> 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-doc" in the body of the message
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