Re: If you are under age blah blah blah don't read this (was: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore, comments in the kernel (rubish) :))

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le Mercredi 12 F�vrier 2003 16:40, Chmouel Boudjnah a �crit :
> from one comments file of the kernel
>
> --- linux.vanilla/drivers/hotplug/tp600.c     1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
> +0100 +++ linux.20-ac2/drivers/hotplug/tp600.c        2002-09-13
> 00:45:51.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,500 @@
> +/*
> + *   Drivers for the IBM 20H2999 found in the IBM thinkpad series
> + *   machines.
> + *
> + *   This driver was done without documentation from IBM
> + *
> + *              _
> + *             { }
> + *          | |              All reverse engineering done
> + *          | |              in accordance with 92/250/EEC
> + *       .-.! !.-.           and Copyright (Computer Programs)
> + *     .-!  ! !  !.-.        Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992 No. 3233)
> + *     ! !       !  ;
> + *         \       ;
> + *      \         ;
> + *       !       :
> + *       !       |
> + *       |       |
> + *
> + *
> + *   Various other IBM's tried to obtain docs but failed. For that
> + *   reason we only support warm not hot undocking at the moment.
> + *
I'd like to put this in kernel-fortunes -:)
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