Subject: Re: New spl level: splsched()
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/03/1997 10:43:40
Charles M. Hannum writes:
> Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> > However, rom a software engineering perspective, I really, really
> > *dont* want to see these changes commited until the interrupt
> > architecture is documented well enough for, say, a new portmaster to
> > understand it and be sure that a given port actually *meets* the
> > design assumptions.
> 
> `That's why I explained what it's supposed to do.'  It's true that in
> an ideal world this would be documented in gory detail, but I don't
> currently have time to do that, and I need this done several months
> ago.

Producing a good man page is slow. Producing a bad one takes five
minutes, and it can be improved with time.

Perry