On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:14 AM, John Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Bond I think you are a prime example of someone who walks the line > > between asking legit questions and asking dubious questions. I think > > your intentions are good and you really are trying to learn, but you > > ask far too many questions far too quickly. Also, I think you should > I read that book of device drivers which is ............and read it > for at least many years > and not once many many times.I could not write a single driver out of it. > Which I recently wrote by writing some other "recent docs" and then > with the understanding developed from them. > If there is some thing like my previous question for a structure in > super IO chips such things I do not see commonly being used. > I looked at a similar code in vlc media player and found that such a > structure was not known to many many experienced kernel level > programmers and > they found it difficult to understand. > I think Robert JUST mentioned something about thread hijacking in the previous mail. Sorry to say this guys - i don't see how the docs can help people understand the rules. Even this thread about guidelines is not being followed according to the guidelines. Recursion??? > If some one is asking a question via a typedef in a function pointer > or structure initialization which he never found any where else on > this planet other than the kernel then what wrong is he doing.That > book does not covers such things.See it is very good to give lecture > to any one who asked question to do blah blah but to understand his > problem and give a solution to some thing specific is not an easy > thing. > Recent example was my character device question where the driver was > dropping characters out of it. I could not understand the reason > behind it some one even blocked me from his mails and one guy actually > solved that problem. > When you are learning some thing then asking questions even the > silliest ones is not wrong. > At least some one who is asking is attempting his level best( upon his > understanding) to understand irrespective of the fact that community > does not appreciates that. > I did read K R after getting busted here and I do not see any one else > other than me asking such C questions and to the best of my knowledge > I did not found any thing the people who suggest to read K R > themselves do not read that book but will give suggestion to read. > KR was written for C in very old times to help people beginning with > programming or what ever reason it does not cover often the way Data > structures are initialized in kernel specific areas.Or some other > relevant stuff.My point is rather than giving some one such a lecture > it will be better to just make a doc with relevant structs,typedefs > and such other tricks which are used in kernel many a times which > might not be commonly found on the wiki and give a link to that may be > if such a thing is present some one whose questions appear silly would > before asking read that doc and will get his answers from there. -- > Most of the free documentation and kernel books are not worth reading. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
