Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:59:26 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Yar Tikhiy" <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/examples/drivers make_device_driver.sh Message-ID: <47d0403c0608111059g66bad84cjb5dc78d882ce45cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060811001637.GE5729@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <200608061106.k76B6ahO042778@repoman.freebsd.org> <44D5F2C1.7080606@inse.ru> <20060808124221.GO54416@comp.chem.msu.su> <20060808142616.S45647@fledge.watson.org> <44D89ED3.3000805@inse.ru> <20060808152429.W45647@fledge.watson.org> <44DA5C5A.70404@inse.ru> <20060810063312.GD93633@comp.chem.msu.su> <20060810092049.GB733@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060811001637.GE5729@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On 8/10/06, Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> 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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