From: Spruell, Darren-Perot (Darren.Spruellchw.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 14:16:59 CDT

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From: Charles M. Hannum [mailto:mycroftMIT.EDU]
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:40:01AM -0700, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote:
> > Like, what docs does a vendor engineering division give to the
> > developers who write the drivers internally? They don't
> give them bad
> > docs. They give them functional, useful docs. Does it need to be
> > stated that any project wanting to compose useful support
> for the same
> > hardware shouldn't get the same level of docs?
>
> Sorry, but that's the core fallacy in your argument. In many
> cases, there are no "functional, useful docs". They just
> don't exist. Certainly this is a problem in itself.

Certainly it is. So why bother resorting to vendor-supplied drivers (OSS or
blob) derived from originally piss-poor docs in the first place? If the docs
are bad, then the results of those docs are derivatively worse as a result.

Users don't want this, and developers don't want this either.

DS

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