On 8/10/06, Yar Tikhiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:20:49PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-Aug-10 10:33:12 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> The problem with having a real driver is that someone who wants to use
> it as a skeleton has to first separate the "boilerplate" from the
> functional parts. OTOH, having a well-commented and working driver
> can be very useful when trying to understand how to get from the
> boilerplate to a real driver.
Well, an existing driver (or several drivers of different complexity)
could be adapted this way; and, according to my own experience in
jobs as dirty as this one, it can be enough fun to you when you
learn something interesting from it, too. OTOH, it's tedious to
do in case you can recite the driver source, smiling when it comes
to a particularly exquisite hack. Therefore we shouldn't expect
driver maintainers or active driver developers to do the job: FreeBSD
means, first of all, fun. At the same time, not-so-experienced
developers could do it with pleasure, as well as for the benefit
of both theirselves and the community. Note that "developers"
doesn't mean "committers" at once, and everyone can help by submitting
respective patches--preferably a patch per a whole driver, not per
a comment added. :-)
I'm sure Alexander wouldn't mind if you sent him a description for the
project ideas page -- are there any drivers in particular that could
easily benefit from such a treatment?
-Ben Kaduk
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