Re: Meta: explain what where when? (was Re: userland access to devices is moving!)

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 06/18/03

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    To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:05:18 +0200

    In message <20030618190032.GG10127@over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" writes:

    >> I do on the other hand not think that emails to arch@ is the best forum
    >> for the in-depth explanations.
    >
    >Oh, absolutely! And to understand an in-depth explanation, I'd have to
    >dig into the code anyway to understand it.
    >
    >I was aiming more at a throwaway statement like, "This will clean up a
    >lot of code and make it easier to understand and debug," or [...]

    Ahh, ok. Yeah, I guess we have a tendency to write with the usual
    suspects as implied target. I'll try to remember that.

    >> The "blueprint" articles which I am trying to restart in DĉmonNews
    >> may not be either, but I think they are more the right kind of
    >> forum for it. I am still warming up to the article format, and the
    >> amount of feedback so far has not really given me any feel for how
    >> complex issues I can tackle without the readers just skipping the
    >> article.
    >
    >That's an interesting way to go, and certainly something worthwhile.
    >Poking at the site now, I see the one from May on userland/kernel
    >interfaces; has there been more?

    I hope the next one is in the pipeline... 

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