Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD
To: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>
From: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/31/2006 19:42:17
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:57:20PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards
> > directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of
> > documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need
> > documentation for?
>
> To fix the driver.
>
> A given piece of source code can only been believed correct until it is
> proven to be broken (unless you're Knuth, but he did not write device
> drivers).
Even Knuth:
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it."
-DEK
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