From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 19:06:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA14099 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:06:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA14094 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA02410; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 22:05:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 22:05:29 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo To: Michael Smith cc: "Brian J. McGovern" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Constructive criticism (was: bashing everyone for fun and profit) In-Reply-To: <199701300120.LAA24028@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Brian J. McGovern stands accused of saying: > > > I've been noticing, more an more, that FreeBSD has been/is being > > divided in to two camps. Basically, the "has", and the "has [big SNIP] > > > The second major area of concern in my eyes is device > > drivers. Someone pointed me to a section of handbook that dealt with > > doing it (supposedly), but it was terribly out of date. Back to > > If you can't work out how device drivers are integrated, I seriously > doubt that you're up to writing one in the first place. 8( > > However, I'll note that I've been helping people learning DD writing for > a while now (not that I'm any expert at it either), and I've never > seen your name attached to a question going past. How are you supposed > to learn if you never _ask_? > I'm a beginning Unix programmer also, and when I looked at the device driver section of the handbook, it was very uncomplete. I understand, however, that writing device drivers in Unix is quite similar across most unix platforms.. Can you recomend a good book on device driver writing for Unix, that would minimize my headaches when I try to make mine work with FreeBSD? TIA. -Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity." Cicero (106-43 B.C.) > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ >