From: Charles M. Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:40:01AM -0700, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > > Like, what docs does a vendor engineering division give to the > > developers who write the drivers internally? They don't > give them bad > > docs. They give them functional, useful docs. Does it need to be > > stated that any project wanting to compose useful support > for the same > > hardware shouldn't get the same level of docs? > > Sorry, but that's the core fallacy in your argument. In many > cases, there are no "functional, useful docs". They just > don't exist. Certainly this is a problem in itself.
Certainly it is. So why bother resorting to vendor-supplied drivers (OSS or blob) derived from originally piss-poor docs in the first place? If the docs are bad, then the results of those docs are derivatively worse as a result. Users don't want this, and developers don't want this either. DS
