Spoon feeding

[rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Nicholas Krause wrote:

> Greetings All,

> After thinking for a few days I have come to the conclusion that the
> communities definition of spoon feeding and my are different.  If
> someone would like to give me the community definition so there is
> no more misunderstandings and time wasting that would be great.

  let me explain this with a comparison.  here's the kind of question
you *should* ask:

  "hi. i want to know more about X, so i read the files under the
Documentation/ directory and wrote a simple test program to try it
out. but i'm confused because the output of the program doesn't match
what the Doc file suggested, so i added some printk() statements and
here's the output in /var/log/messages where things don't seem to
match what i thought i should be seeing. i've attached the sample
program, and i've posted the entire program output to dropbox where
people can look at it. this is all being done on a freshly-compiled
3.18 kernel."

  and here's the kind of question you *do* ask:

  "hi, i want to know more about X, can someone drop everything
they're doing and explain it to me?"

  see the difference, nick?

rday

p.s. this post was, unsurprisingly, a waste of time.

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