Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:00:35 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } |
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On Fri, Dec 28 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 27 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > > BUZZIT on your total lack of documention the the changes to the > > > > request_struct, otherwise I could follow your mindset and it would not be > > > > a pissing contest. > > > > > > Tried reading the source? > > > > As usual, without documentation you only know what the code > > does, not what it's supposed to do or why it does it. > > > > Documentation is an essential ingredient when hunting for > > bugs in the code, because without the docs you have to guess > > whether something is a bug or not, while with docs it's much > > easier to identify inconsistencies. > > please look at the source before making such comments -- it's quite > adequately commented.
Lest I forget to mention this again -- also see Suparna's excellent notes on the new block I/O layer:
http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/bionotes.txt
And my own write-up right here on lkml:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100695031900001&r=1&w=2
-- Jens Axboe
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