Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man4

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:05:18PM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> > The fact that Linux has always done this wrong is not a reason to go
> > chasing after them and reinventing their mistakes.
> 
> As usual, you managed to marvellously miss the point. The reason Linux does
> this (right) is the amount of device drivers and other components that
> exceed the ones in NetBSD by several factors.

I found that a surprisingly large part of that is a result of badly
designed drivers and resulting duplication of code. As such, it is more
a lazy excuse than a good justification for behvaior.

Joerg