I'd rather have code

Posted Aug 27, 2006 0:38 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: I'd rather have code by sobdk
Parent article: Free drivers aren't enough

Personally, I think source code is some of the best documentation you can have.

Yeah, especially since any halfway responsible coder of a driver intended to be open source for a device with no manual would put all the needed information in comments.

I've always thought what's worth even more than specs is technical support at the driver level. E.g. you can email the company with, "I wrote Q to Register Z and nothing happened," and someone responds, "We found a bug in that version. To work around it, write Q twice."

In contrast, all the technical support you can usually get is, "what version of Windows is that, and which button did you click?"