Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:29:11 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dennis' inability to fix the eepro driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000312152226.13688b-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200003112227.OAA05768@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: [snip] > > Why haven't you considered hiring somebody to document the parts you are > > intersted in? Would solve at least half the problem... > > To be fair to Dennis, it's not the cost of paying the dropout to fix this > driver that's at issue here. > > Documentation for the eepro parts is not easy to get; I only have one > outdated hardcopy, and I get all sorts of weird stuff thrown at me. > Nah. It wasn't in response to anything that dealt with the driver. Nothing to do with eepro at all. It was in response to the rant about how everything was undocumented spaghetty code so few people could make any sense of that people were virtually dependant on those few. [snip] > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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