From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:29:05 +0100 Subject: unable to write flashrom, functionality broken? In-Reply-To: <20110203234730.28953.qmail@stuge.se> (sfid-20110204_004735_721902_FFFFFFFFD8BEB068) References: <26E2E0F1-1CD4-4A96-B96F-D1F7B6EE5B17@daleenterprise.com> <4D4834C0.5060701@lwfinger.net> <463A54B6-A0A4-4197-A19A-067FBDC63F66@daleenterprise.com> <4D4A208F.50408@lwfinger.net> <16F75F7A-922A-4472-96C8-2938F62EDBB8@daleenterprise.com> <1296734372.26739.21.camel@maggie> <1296770788.9535.1.camel@maggie> <20110203223430.18158.qmail@stuge.se> <1296773390.9535.13.camel@maggie> <20110203234730.28953.qmail@stuge.se> (sfid-20110204_004735_721902_FFFFFFFFD8BEB068) Message-ID: <1296779345.9535.46.camel@maggie> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 00:47 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > > You're simply unaware of the basic Unix tools that help you find > > what you are searching for. > > Not at all. If I was the one looking for the code that talks to > hardware I'd not only know where to find it, but I'd also know every > other component of hardware and software that the data passes through > on the way. A basic thing about software abstraction is that you do _not_ need to know what a subsystem does internally. To understand the ssb_sprom file, you do _not_ have to read one single line of sysfs code. To understand the whole SSB SPROM writing, you have to read about 200 lines of code. > > Luckily the tool to find something is called "find". > > I think you may have missed my point. One part is certainly to know > how to find a file in a Linux system, but more important is the > question of what to search for (a file) and where to search (in the > kernel codebase). It's not at all obvious to a newcomer where the > kernel edge is, or even that the kernel is so distinct. I think we're probably drifting offtopic. Why would a newcomer who doesn't even know what an operating system kernel is want to write an SSB SPROM? That guy will brick his device anyway, as he _will_ write incorrect data to the SPROM. The next thing you'll probably blame on me is that I did not document in the b43 documentation how to use a qwerty keyboard. -- Greetings Michael.