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From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: source of TCP/IP (was I hope this wont ignite a major flame ...)
Date: 05 Aug 1994 16:29:47 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software
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In-reply-to: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca's message of 3 Aug 1994 15:31:25 GMT

In article <31od8d$15l@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:

   Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
   : Errr, I guess you haven't read any of the Linux source.  Hint: I wasn't
   : worried about at least one of those organizations.

   As far as I can tell; Linux Ethernet device-drivers were written in
   Write-Only-C.  There are no comments in the surrounding code that in any
   way indicates exactly what "0x3c00", "0x0a", "0x00c0" actually mean. To
   people without docs (usually these are the people who are trying to fix
   the code) the above is completely meaningless.

So?  Fix it if you think it's a problem, and submit it to Linus.
Hackers write code, they don't whine about other people's code.

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