>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
>
> Ahh, excellent, now if this could be included in the distribution or
> at least a link to it in the man pages of the distribution we would
> probably make someones life a little easier.
>
> I haven't checked all of the HOWTO, but methinks there's no info on
> how it ties into the kernel and some on the inner workings of the
> beast... (Not that it necessarily should be in the HOWTO.) And yes
> there's always TFS, but if I would check the source for every program
> I wanted to figure out, I'd do nothing else. Linus', and others,
> attitude of not documenting anything either inside our outside the
> code I find kind of childish, 'This is mine, mine, mine, and if you
> don't understand it don't mess with it...' My company (were I work,
> that is, not own.) is porting Linux to our new CPU and we would enjoy
> it even more if the comments in it weren't from the beginning of the
> 90s... and incorrect... and outdated...
>
Quite frankly, if I were to write a kernel tutorial on every kernel
subsystem I hacked on, I wouldn't be able to do it. autofs wouldn't
exist. It's interesting that you're porting Linux to a new CPU
(Axis... that would be a new SPARC?) and a good indication how far
we've come, but you have to realize that how far we've come is in many
ways an indication of how we got there!
One difference with Linux, too, is that there are lots of people to
ask.
-hpa
