The future of NetBSD

[Darrin Chandler]

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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