Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:09:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:09:27 -0500 Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]:45255 "EHLO mailout04.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:09:21 -0500 To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: White Paper on the Linux kernel VM? In-Reply-To: <20020124033618.20653.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> <200201241206.g0OC66E10502@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> From: Olaf Dietsche Date: 24 Jan 2002 16:06:37 +0100 Message-ID: <873d0vss8y.fsf@tigram.bogus.local> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence) 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 Denis Vlasenko writes: > Writing docs wastes developer's time: they will write how they want VM to > operate or how they think it operates (while some bug can make actual VM > operate differently) instead of improving/debugging current VM code. I don't want to judge, wether writing docs wastes developer's time. But, when I first tried understanding file systems, it was of tremendous help having docs like Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt and the like. I couldn't have done it without. > After you got to understand how Linux VM works from source, feel free to > write docs. When you're that far, you are a developer and it will waste your time writing docs ;-). Regards, Olaf. - 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/