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SubjectRe: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
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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