> As a newbie to kernel programming, who might need a little help and guidance,
> the above is certainly true. I can attest to the fact that I have a certain
> reluctance to post some of my questions to this list(hackers). I have posted
> some in the past, many of which have gone unanswered, to which I know answers
> exists. This is certainly not the case in all situations.
Are you willing to accept that you may have been judged "not worth the
effort" on the content of your questions, or are we going to have
another flamewar about whether we should be opening a developers'
kindergarten?
There is no sense in wasting the time of one informed developer to help
one uninformed developer; this is a bad tradeoff unless the uninformed
developer is showing signs of promise. The only way to assess this is
to look at the questions they ask and the context they're asking them
from. Nobody wants to answer one obvious question if there's any
chance at all that the questioner will latch onto them and demand
answers for dozens more - this isn't "helping someone", it's "doing
their work for free".
So, regardless of whether you've asked a question or not, you need to
understand that the onus rests solely on yourself to pursue the answer.
They're all there in the code, where everyone else that you're asking
has already found them.
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