Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:30:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:29:54 -0500 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:51972 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:29:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:29:37 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Jens Axboe Cc: Andre Hedrick , Alan Cox , Daniel Stodden , , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } In-Reply-To: <20011228115956.E2973@suse.de> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > BUZZIT on your total lack of documention the the changes to the > > request_struct, otherwise I could follow your mindset and it would not be > > a pissing contest. > > Tried reading the source? As usual, without documentation you only know what the code does, not what it's supposed to do or why it does it. Documentation is an essential ingredient when hunting for bugs in the code, because without the docs you have to guess whether something is a bug or not, while with docs it's much easier to identify inconsistencies. regards, Rik -- Shortwave goes a long way: irc.starchat.net #swl http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/