On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 00:47 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > > You're simply unaware of the basic Unix tools that help you find > > what you are searching for. > > Not at all. If I was the one looking for the code that talks to > hardware I'd not only know where to find it, but I'd also know every > other component of hardware and software that the data passes through > on the way.
A basic thing about software abstraction is that you do _not_ need to know what a subsystem does internally. To understand the ssb_sprom file, you do _not_ have to read one single line of sysfs code. To understand the whole SSB SPROM writing, you have to read about 200 lines of code. > > Luckily the tool to find something is called "find". > > I think you may have missed my point. One part is certainly to know > how to find a file in a Linux system, but more important is the > question of what to search for (a file) and where to search (in the > kernel codebase). It's not at all obvious to a newcomer where the > kernel edge is, or even that the kernel is so distinct. I think we're probably drifting offtopic. Why would a newcomer who doesn't even know what an operating system kernel is want to write an SSB SPROM? That guy will brick his device anyway, as he _will_ write incorrect data to the SPROM. The next thing you'll probably blame on me is that I did not document in the b43 documentation how to use a qwerty keyboard. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
