Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:12:43 -0000 From: Gilles Chehade <veins@evilkittens.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <CF4.2070801@evilkittens.org> In-Reply-To: <20060831220318.T82634@hub.org> References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <c6d37fe0608310259k12fe629eve59e59042fcfdb4c@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311312190.8977@odem.66h.42h.de> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <f34ca13c0608310843p4e28b57eoec2f60737c034ddb@mail.gmail.com> <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org> <44F7619B.8010609@evilkittens.org> <20060831192632.T82634@hub.org> <44F775EF.3040306@evilkittens.org> <20060831220318.T82634@hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote: > >> mmmh ... you've got a point ... you just opened my eyes ... >> documentation is pointless when I have a blackbox doing the work. > > Maybe I'm missing something, and if so, I do apologize to those on > these lists that I may have offended ... but ... having clean source > code to a driver is not equal to a black box ... is it? I don't > believe I've once advocatged 'binary drivers' ... a blackbox is not necessarily a binary driver, based on source code filled with magic values you know nothing about, would you be able to fix a bug ?
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