Hello, Wilfred van Rooijen, le dim. 08 févr. 2026 11:16:22 +0900, a ecrit: > Thank you for your reaction, which I would typify as "succinct" or perhaps > even > "terse".
I'm sorry, but, indeed, I don't plan to take time to answer questions which are frequently answered, and which have no other answer than "things take time", which is *precisely* why I don't want to spend time on answering in more details than the simple answer. > Your FAQs and reactions on this list have one commonality, namely that they > don't provide any real answers to any of the questions. They do really provide the real answer. They don't provide details, because there is either no detail to provide, or it's uselessly unproductive for us to teach people coming by about how an OS works. The osdev wiki and such are there for that. > I asked a detailed question about USB support. Is it a hardware problem? Is it > a software problem? The response: it doesn't work because it is a lot of work. > That is not an answer to the question. Yes, it is. Really that really is the real answer. Again, see the quote at the end of: https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/how_many_developers/ which was a reaction on LWN to basically the same question: Developers, developers, developers, developers. They are the people that matter at this point in time. I'm sick repeating this over and over and over to everybody who like you seem to take for granted that we have an infinite amount of time to develop everything *and* answer details to people coming by the list. Really, the answer about USB is what is in the faq: “ USB disk and CD are supported in rumpusbdisk. For now the stack is embedded inside it, so we don't support other USB devices. Once we still it in two pieces with the ugen interface in between, we will be able to support other USB devices. ” So yes it's really just a question of working on the USB software stack. > Every message closes with the ubiquitous "invitation" which one can sum up as > "we know that X doesn't work, but feel free to help us." If you are trying to > encourage new developers, be aware you'll have more success with honey than > with vinegar. I'm sorry but you don't seem to show up as a developper but as a user. When developers see something that doesn't work, they look at what can be fixed and how ; they don't just blame the authors for not fixing things (because authors obviously have an infinite amount of time on their hands, don't they?) Samuel
