From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:04:52 -0700
Does anyone have documentation (or semantics) for rtnl_talk()? or just some blurb about it?
I always have to wonder about someone who can't live with just working code to study, and absolutely requires some document describing it.
What is better or more accurate description than code itself!?!?!
Well, the difference between code and its spec is generally a bug that needs to be fixed ... which can be in the code as well as in the spec. And for reasonable design specs, it's more likely in the code.
But if there's only the code, it gets a lot more troublesome when things don't behave "as expected".
People who are in a position to change the code to meet their expectations may not care, but that's rarely a significant chunk of the user community.
And in particular, writing tests against the code is generally the wrong way to go. They need to be written against some kind of spec.
- Dave
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