Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757261AbYH2QDe (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753152AbYH2QDZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:03:25 -0400 Received: from UKEmail.nice.com ([195.166.55.162]:2265 "EHLO thebe.racal-recorders.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753080AbYH2QDZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:03:25 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 609 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:03:24 EDT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: USBIP protocol Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:53:11 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080829153625.GF1968@parisc-linux.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: USBIP protocol thread-index: AckJ7UuwWjeFyh6IQWiCb70gvPGeDAAAZEoA References: <20080829140224.GC1968@parisc-linux.org> <20080829143017.GB18086@kroah.com> <20080829144354.GD1968@parisc-linux.org> <20080829145407.GB18423@kroah.com> <20080829153625.GF1968@parisc-linux.org> From: "Dave Higton" To: "Matthew Wilcox" , "Greg KH" Cc: , , , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2034 Lines: 36 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:54:07AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Why, isn't the actual implementation better than a document? :) > > Surely you know that writing things down forces you to understand it > better? It's an enormous help for anyone working on the code, either now or in the future. Reverse engineering a protocol from source code is difficult. Dave ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* NICE CTI Systems UK Limited ("NICE") is registered in England under company number, 3403044. The registered office of NICE is at Tollbar Way, Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2ZP. Confidentiality: This communication and any attachments are intended for the above-named persons only and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of NICE. If this communication has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please delete/destroy and inform the sender by e-mail immediately. Monitoring: NICE may monitor incoming and outgoing e-mails. Viruses: Although we have taken steps toward ensuring that this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** -- 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/