Steve Hill (sjhill@cotw.com) writes:
> True on the first sentence. Ted Ts'o has done a tremendous job of mainting
> the serial stuff among others and the base 'serial.c' driver probably does
> not need much tampering with. I do disagree with your second sentence. The
> point is kernel hacking/development is not meant to be easy. If you're not
> willing to spend a few days or a week (maybe longer) learning how it works,
> then maybe you should find someone to write the driver for you if you're
> not willing to put in the effort of learning. Sorry I cannot be nicer
> about that.
What??? You're kidding, right? Do you realize how many lines of code there
are in the kernel and all the drivers? If I spent a week on each driver,
I'd never get through. "If it was hard to write it should be hard to
understand", huh?
This sort of elitist attitude really irritates me. "I am the God of Whatever
Driver, and Ye Shalt Come And Worship At My Feet". If kernel development isn't
supposed to be easy, then I guess from that perspective Linus is a complete
fraud and a wimp because he didn't write the base kernel in machine language.
Kernel development is by no means a piece of cake, but it should be no harder
than absolutely necessary.
Kernel development should be supportive of new people coming in, not trying to
shut them out.
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