From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@aracnet.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 18:18:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020505011855.GC2392@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020504213534.GA3034@louise.pinerecords.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205041805240.11514-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-05 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-04 19:59 IO stats in /proc/partitions Andries.Brouwer
2002-05-04 20:35 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-05-04 21:25 ` Mark Hahn
2002-05-05 1:04 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-06 14:04 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-05-04 21:35 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-05-05 1:08 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-05 1:18 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-05-05 16:55 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-05 18:10 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-05 23:51 ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-05-04 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-04 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-15 21:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-05-15 23:18 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-05-16 0:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-20 18:19 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-21 0:36 ` Guest section DW
2002-05-21 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-16 7:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-23 20:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-05-24 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-05 1:38 Nivedita Singhvi
2002-03-12 15:34 Jean-Eric Cuendet
2002-03-12 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-12 22:48 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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