Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 May 2002 18:18:55 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions |
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On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 06:08:58PM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > > But hey, you've suffered thru it, which, guess what, makes you the > > perfect candidate to have the honor of writing the docs! > > The person who made the "design" decisions and implemented the code is > responsible for documenting it. At least that's what *I* was taught 40 > years ago when I learned to program a computer.
True, but we don't know if the code designer is still around to do so either.
By doing the code tracing yourself you are in a better position to submit informed documentation patches. This won't help the designer's habbits any, but it'll help others in the position that you were in before you did the tracing... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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