Re: White Paper on the Linux kernel VM?

From: Olaf Dietsche (olaf.dietsche--list.linux-kernel@exmail.de)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 10:06:37 EST


Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> writes:

> Writing docs wastes developer's time: they will write how they want VM to
> operate or how they think it operates (while some bug can make actual VM
> operate differently) instead of improving/debugging current VM code.

I don't want to judge, wether writing docs wastes developer's
time. But, when I first tried understanding file systems, it was of
tremendous help having docs like Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt and
the like. I couldn't have done it without.

> After you got to understand how Linux VM works from source, feel free to
> write docs.

When you're that far, you are a developer and it will waste your time
writing docs ;-).

Regards, Olaf.
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