Re: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:33:50 +0100


On Fri, Dec 28 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 27 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> > > BUZZIT on your total lack of documention the the changes to the
> > > request_struct, otherwise I could follow your mindset and it would not be
> > > a pissing contest.
> >
> > Tried reading the source?
>
> As usual, without documentation you only know what the code
> does, not what it's supposed to do or why it does it.
>
> Documentation is an essential ingredient when hunting for
> bugs in the code, because without the docs you have to guess
> whether something is a bug or not, while with docs it's much
> easier to identify inconsistencies.

please look at the source before making such comments -- it's quite
adequately commented.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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