Question on ISR

Hi all,

I have a general question on isr…why is isr in non-paged pool and also at DIRQL always…

if i don’t have any time constraint with the what is need to do in ISR, then can i have lenghty operations done in an isr…??

I know, usually this is not allowed, but don’t know the reason…

can somebody highlight more on above queries pls…

thanx,

Shiva P

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I swear, this question was asked just 2 days ago. Did you do a search? I got curious and went searching the veracity of they who posited the query —

His email is rassit.com and this is from their web page —

"RASS IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (RASS) is a Bangalore based company established to provide Services, Systems and Solutions for Aerospace, Automotive, Manufacturing and Communication Industries. The founders and key personnel of RASS have over 100 man years of core technical expertise in developing Embedded Applications, Automatic Test Equipment, Interactive Simulation and Communication systems and solutions for Indian, US and European markets "

Hmmm … “100 man years of core technical expertise” and one of their engineers doesn’t know why an interrupt is at an elevated control state and requires existent memory? Maybe they have 100 “experts” with one year experience, or every one of the “experts” had gone home when Shiva had a question.

Asked and answered. Do a search here or in Microsoft’s public driver developers newsgroup. The question has been answered by the some of the most knowledgeable.


Gary G. Little

“Shiva Prasad T. S.” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
Hi all,

I have a general question on isr…why is isr in non-paged pool and also at DIRQL always…

if i don’t have any time constraint with the what is need to do in ISR, then can i have lenghty operations done in an isr…??

I know, usually this is not allowed, but don’t know the reason…

can somebody highlight more on above queries pls…

thanx,

Shiva P

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I apologise the groups for having not followed for the reply to this
query…

I would suggest Gary to learn Civic Mannerism first before logging into
this user group…It’s none of Gary’s business to comment on our company…

If you would have seen this message, you would ignore it without answering
or would tell it’s already answered…and it’s not a professional’s
behaviour on commenting such things that too in a public user group…I
strongly condemn this kind of people making such comments…

If you have patience ,answer it…or just direct to some information…least
stay calm…

I would like to bring this information to the notice of the user group
moderator…

Actually, while Gary’s comments may be out of line, he certainly has the
right to comment on your company. Gary is an outstanding consultant, but
right now many US firms are outsourcing contracts to firms like yours
because of price leaving people like Gary without work. I looked at your
company’s website for a firm that I consult for and pointed out that there
were a lot of errors on the site, and a driver from your firm would likely
be full of errors also. It is interesting that your firm claims several
successful WDM drivers but you are asking very basic driver questions that
your in house expertise should be able to answer.

Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting

----- Original Message -----
From: “shiva prasad”
To: “Windows System Software Developers Interest List”
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Question on ISR

> I apologise the groups for having not followed for the reply to this
> query…
>
> I would suggest Gary to learn Civic Mannerism first before logging into
> this user group…It’s none of Gary’s business to comment on our company…
>
> If you would have seen this message, you would ignore it without answering
> or would tell it’s already answered…and it’s not a professional’s
> behaviour on commenting such things that too in a public user group…I
> strongly condemn this kind of people making such comments…
>
> If you have patience ,answer it…or just direct to some information…least
> stay calm…
>
> I would like to bring this information to the notice of the user group
> moderator…
>
>
>
>
>
> —
> You are currently subscribed to ntdev as: xxxxx@acm.org
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“shiva prasad” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I apologise the groups for having not followed for the reply to this
> query…
>
> I would suggest Gary to learn Civic Mannerism first before logging into
> this user group…It’s none of Gary’s business to comment on our company…
>

> I would like to bring this information to the notice of the user group
> moderator…
>

Network etiquette and professional engineering discipline demand SOME
reasonable amount of work – at the very least checking the archives –
before sending out a question to this group. This is in the joining notes.
Some of us on this list, especially those who answer a lot of questions, get
tired of seeing the same questions posted over and over again. Even if you
don’t care about etiquette, consider that posting a question that has
already been asked and answered is not conducive to getting the best
response. If somebody took the time to anwer this same question 1 month
ago, what do you think the chances are that same person – or somebody else
equally qualified – will take the time to answer it again?

Sometimes seeing the lack of netiquette and engineering discipline so
glaringly evidenced here makes people grumpy and lose their patience. This
is not good, but it is understandable.

On the other hand, Mr. Little’s response does strike me as a touch
xenophobic. Let’s hope I’m wrong.

As to "moderator"s for this list – We really only have List Slaves who
facilitate the running of the lists for the benefit of the greater
community. We believe in moderation in moderation.

[Sigh! It’s all enough to make one wish for the ‘old days’ of usenet, isn’t
it? When flame-wars were de rigueur, and calling somebody names for a
sub-par posting was not only acceptable, it was expected! Ah, those where
the days. We all understood the rules back then. But I digress.]

Peter
NTDEV/NTFSD List Slave Emeritus

I don’t think it is really ‘xenophobia’.

Unskilled incompentent low-rent development organizations are underbidding
competent experienced kernel developers on a regular basis. These some
low-rent developers then turn around and use this list and the usenet groups
to get the experienced kernel developers they just underbid to rescue them
from their deserved fate: project disaster.

The fact that the ‘bonehead’ questions, which are now the mode of this list,
almost always come from people not working in the United States or in
Europe, is not relevant to the anger some of us feel about the way this list
is being abused. Of course a Pat Buchanan-type could easily transform such
anger into a pitchfork parade to ‘get the foreigners’, but that is currently
not what is happening.

It would be somewhat helpful if the Lyris search engine were more user
friendly, if google coughed up ntdev messages on queries, and if there were
a decent maintained FAQ for kernel development that covered the endless spew
of bonehead clueless questions.

=====================
Mark Roddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Viscarola [mailto:xxxxx@osr.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:22 AM
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Question on ISR

“shiva prasad” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I apologise the groups for having not followed for the reply to this
> query…
>
> I would suggest Gary to learn Civic Mannerism first before logging
> into this user group…It’s none of Gary’s business to comment on our
> company…
>

> I would like to bring this information to the notice of the user group
> moderator…
>

Network etiquette and professional engineering discipline demand SOME
reasonable amount of work – at the very least checking the archives –
before sending out a question to this group. This is in the joining notes.
Some of us on this list, especially those who answer a lot of questions, get
tired of seeing the same questions posted over and over again. Even if you
don’t care about etiquette, consider that posting a question that has
already been asked and answered is not conducive to getting the best
response. If somebody took the time to anwer this same question 1 month
ago, what do you think the chances are that same person – or somebody else
equally qualified – will take the time to answer it again?

Sometimes seeing the lack of netiquette and engineering discipline so
glaringly evidenced here makes people grumpy and lose their patience. This
is not good, but it is understandable.

On the other hand, Mr. Little’s response does strike me as a touch
xenophobic. Let’s hope I’m wrong.

As to "moderator"s for this list – We really only have List Slaves who
facilitate the running of the lists for the benefit of the greater
community. We believe in moderation in moderation.

[Sigh! It’s all enough to make one wish for the ‘old days’ of usenet, isn’t
it? When flame-wars were de rigueur, and calling somebody names for a
sub-par posting was not only acceptable, it was expected! Ah, those where
the days. We all understood the rules back then. But I digress.]

Peter
NTDEV/NTFSD List Slave Emeritus


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“Roddy, Mark” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I don’t think it is really ‘xenophobia’.
>
> Unskilled incompentent low-rent development organizations are underbidding
> competent experienced kernel developers on a regular basis. These some
> low-rent developers then turn around and use this list and the usenet
groups
> to get the experienced kernel developers they just underbid to rescue them
> from their deserved fate: project disaster.
>

I would suggest that if merely obtaining the answers to questions via the
internet can save a project from disaster, then it’s far easier to write a
driver than I ever thought, and those projects weren’t doomed in the first
place.

But this is far too big a question to debate here.

>
> It would be somewhat helpful if the Lyris search engine were more user
> friendly, if google coughed up ntdev messages on queries, and if there
were
> a decent maintained FAQ for kernel development that covered the endless
spew
> of bonehead clueless questions.
>

OSR will take action items to solve these three issues, but we’ll need some
help.

1) Over the next six months (maximum), we will make the Lyris search engine
MUCH more user friendly, no matter what it takes. We have tried to do this
many times, but we have been unsuccesful each time. We will, however, solve
this.
2) Over the same time period, we will ensure Google indexes the list.
3) We will IMMEDIATELY being a good kernel development FAQ, and put it on
OSR Online in the Getting Started section for access by all. We will credit
the members of this list in the by-line of the FAQ. We will credit the
individual engineer by name in the answer to any specific question.

We need the support of every member of this list to make ITEM 3 happen.
Every time you answer a question that should be in the FAQ, add “FOR FAQ” to
the title. If you have any items that you want to pass along to START the
FAQ, you may send them to xxxxx@osr.com right now. We will edit the FAQ,
make it available, and we will put a pointer to the FAQ at the end of every
NTDEV message.

Peter
OSR

Anybody thought about maintaining a FAQ? At least that would make
answers to repeated questions something like “see 1.4 in the faq”…

-sd

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 08:21, Peter Viscarola wrote:

“shiva prasad” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> >
> > I apologise the groups for having not followed for the reply to this
> > query…
> >
> > I would suggest Gary to learn Civic Mannerism first before logging into
> > this user group…It’s none of Gary’s business to comment on our company…
> >
> …
> > I would like to bring this information to the notice of the user group
> > moderator…
> >
>
> Network etiquette and professional engineering discipline demand SOME
> reasonable amount of work – at the very least checking the archives –
> before sending out a question to this group. This is in the joining notes.
> Some of us on this list, especially those who answer a lot of questions, get
> tired of seeing the same questions posted over and over again. Even if you
> don’t care about etiquette, consider that posting a question that has
> already been asked and answered is not conducive to getting the best
> response. If somebody took the time to anwer this same question 1 month
> ago, what do you think the chances are that same person – or somebody else
> equally qualified – will take the time to answer it again?
>
> Sometimes seeing the lack of netiquette and engineering discipline so
> glaringly evidenced here makes people grumpy and lose their patience. This
> is not good, but it is understandable.
>
> On the other hand, Mr. Little’s response does strike me as a touch
> xenophobic. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
>
> As to "moderator"s for this list – We really only have List Slaves who
> facilitate the running of the lists for the benefit of the greater
> community. We believe in moderation in moderation.
>
> [Sigh! It’s all enough to make one wish for the ‘old days’ of usenet, isn’t
> it? When flame-wars were de rigueur, and calling somebody names for a
> sub-par posting was not only acceptable, it was expected! Ah, those where
> the days. We all understood the rules back then. But I digress.]
>
> Peter
> NTDEV/NTFSD List Slave Emeritus
>
>
>
> —
> You are currently subscribed to ntdev as: xxxxx@positivenetworks.net
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com
>

It will be difficult to get Gary in any sort of trouble. Gary spends
many hours helping people on this group for free. It gets tiring for us
all to see the same questions posted over and over again. A little
research and some reading of the Microsoft documentation would have
answered your question.

I am in100% agreement with Gary’s comments.

Jamey

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of shiva prasad
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:36 AM
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Question on ISR

I apologise the groups for having not followed for the reply to this
query…

I would suggest Gary to learn Civic Mannerism first before logging into
this user group…It’s none of Gary’s business to comment on our
company…

If you would have seen this message, you would ignore it without
answering
or would tell it’s already answered…and it’s not a professional’s
behaviour on commenting such things that too in a public user group…I
strongly condemn this kind of people making such comments…

If you have patience ,answer it…or just direct to some
information…least
stay calm…

I would like to bring this information to the notice of the user group
moderator…


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I tend to side with Gary and Mark on this one.

Guys, it’s ok to compete for work, even on an international basis. It is NOT
ok, however, to suck up a job on the basis of price, and then come to a
public watering hole where the gurus congregate and ask them how you go
about doing the job you took away from them ! There’s a sharp difference
between being a competitor and being a parasite. My immediate reaction is,
if you want our knowledge and experience, hire us at our price. If not,
please, at least be a honest competitor and look at us in the face, and stop
trying to get us to teach you our jobs so that you can underbid us and drive
us out of business.

On the other hand, I do not agree that NTDEV should be an experts-only
place. There should be a good amount of understanding and provision for
newbies, after all, none of us was born with the innate ability of writing
kernel code. It may be time for a FAQ.

I suggest that people who know what they’re doing might improve things a
little bit if they’d only answered questions above a certain level of
knowledge and experience. Scolding doesn’t help, what it takes is that
people learn that this is not a feeding place for scavengers. I know it’s
not easy, but it may be a good idea to only address a topic when it’s more
or less clear that the problem is an honest issue from a professional and
not a fishing-for-the-good-stuff probe from a scavenger. Any of us should
know how to separate the eagles from the vultures, right ? Even a baby eagle
can be easily separated from the vultures, so, how about using our good
senses to try to make this be a mailing list for eagles ?

And maybe PeterV has a point, if writing a driver is something that anyone
with a little bit of programming experience can pick up from the available
tidbits of source code and a little bit of ask-the-guru to fill up the
holes, maybe it’s time technology advances beyond that point ? Time for a
bit more innovation, maybe ? Stop that follow-the-leader thing ?

Alberto.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Viscarola [mailto:xxxxx@osr.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:09 AM
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Question on ISR

“Roddy, Mark” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I don’t think it is really ‘xenophobia’.
>
> Unskilled incompentent low-rent development organizations are underbidding
> competent experienced kernel developers on a regular basis. These some
> low-rent developers then turn around and use this list and the usenet
groups
> to get the experienced kernel developers they just underbid to rescue them
> from their deserved fate: project disaster.
>

I would suggest that if merely obtaining the answers to questions via the
internet can save a project from disaster, then it’s far easier to write a
driver than I ever thought, and those projects weren’t doomed in the first
place.

But this is far too big a question to debate here.

>
> It would be somewhat helpful if the Lyris search engine were more user
> friendly, if google coughed up ntdev messages on queries, and if there
were
> a decent maintained FAQ for kernel development that covered the endless
spew
> of bonehead clueless questions.
>

OSR will take action items to solve these three issues, but we’ll need some
help.

1) Over the next six months (maximum), we will make the Lyris search engine
MUCH more user friendly, no matter what it takes. We have tried to do this
many times, but we have been unsuccesful each time. We will, however, solve
this.
2) Over the same time period, we will ensure Google indexes the list.
3) We will IMMEDIATELY being a good kernel development FAQ, and put it on
OSR Online in the Getting Started section for access by all. We will credit
the members of this list in the by-line of the FAQ. We will credit the
individual engineer by name in the answer to any specific question.

We need the support of every member of this list to make ITEM 3 happen.
Every time you answer a question that should be in the FAQ, add “FOR FAQ” to
the title. If you have any items that you want to pass along to START the
FAQ, you may send them to xxxxx@osr.com right now. We will edit the FAQ,
make it available, and we will put a pointer to the FAQ at the end of every
NTDEV message.

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>>I suggest that people who know what they’re doing might improve things
a
little bit if they’d only answered questions above a certain level of
knowledge and experience. Scolding doesn’t help, what it takes is that
people learn that this is not a feeding place for scavengers. I know
it’s
not easy, but it may be a good idea to only address a topic when it’s
more
or less clear that the problem is an honest issue from a professional
and
not a fishing-for-the-good-stuff probe from a scavenger. Any of us
should
know how to separate the eagles from the vultures, right ? Even a baby
eagle
can be easily separated from the vultures, so, how about using our good
senses to try to make this be a mailing list for eagles ? <<

You have a good point! I am also guilty of scolding some newbie’s. I was
a newbie at one point and this list was very helpful; however, I always
did my research before posting a question. I understand that the
“experts” on this list are busy and it is my responsibility to exhaust
every possible resource before bothering the “big guys”; no pun intended
:slight_smile:

>And maybe PeterV has a point, if writing a driver is something that
anyone
with a little bit of programming experience can pick up from the
available
tidbits of source code and a little bit of ask-the-guru to fill up the
holes, maybe it’s time technology advances beyond that point ? Time for
a
bit more innovation, maybe ? Stop that follow-the-leader thing ? <<

It has been my experience that once the technology matures, folks can
spend more time on design and architecture issues rather than “how do I
schedule an APC” type issues.

Jamey

Sure! You get quality that corresponds to the amount of money you put on
something. If some people want to put less money on a driver (or any piece
of software), then they MUST face the fact that they will most probably
receive something with a lesser quality.

I think there will always be people who know what quality is and how much
it’s worth. Until they all know that, let them learn through their own
errors. :slight_smile:

And those people who are “stealing” your job, they are just doing what they
can. The problem is not with them, it’s with the contractor. When the
contractor is more interested in paying less than to give a hand to its
local economy, that’s the real problem.

Mat

One more thought:

I sometime make mistakes when trying to post a response to a question
that has been answered several times. I rush to answer and get something
wrong. It all boils down to time. I find that the more of my time the
list consumes, the sloppier I get.

Off-topic discussions excluded :slight_smile:

Jamey

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Jamey Kirby
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:10 AM
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Question on ISR

>I suggest that people who know what they’re doing might improve things
a
little bit if they’d only answered questions above a certain level of
knowledge and experience. Scolding doesn’t help, what it takes is that
people learn that this is not a feeding place for scavengers. I know
it’s
not easy, but it may be a good idea to only address a topic when it’s
more
or less clear that the problem is an honest issue from a professional
and
not a fishing-for-the-good-stuff probe from a scavenger. Any of us
should
know how to separate the eagles from the vultures, right ? Even a baby
eagle
can be easily separated from the vultures, so, how about using our good
senses to try to make this be a mailing list for eagles ? <<

You have a good point! I am also guilty of scolding some newbie’s. I was
a newbie at one point and this list was very helpful; however, I always
did my research before posting a question. I understand that the
“experts” on this list are busy and it is my responsibility to exhaust
every possible resource before bothering the “big guys”; no pun intended
:slight_smile:

>And maybe PeterV has a point, if writing a driver is something that
anyone
with a little bit of programming experience can pick up from the
available
tidbits of source code and a little bit of ask-the-guru to fill up the
holes, maybe it’s time technology advances beyond that point ? Time for
a
bit more innovation, maybe ? Stop that follow-the-leader thing ? <<

It has been my experience that once the technology matures, folks can
spend more time on design and architecture issues rather than “how do I
schedule an APC” type issues.

Jamey


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Globalization rules! It is a tough world out there and the competition
will give opportunity to others where it is truly due! We must suck it
up and work harder or die.

Jamey

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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Mathieu Routhier
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:12 AM
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Question on ISR

Sure! You get quality that corresponds to the amount of money you put
on
something. If some people want to put less money on a driver (or any
piece
of software), then they MUST face the fact that they will most probably
receive something with a lesser quality.

I think there will always be people who know what quality is and how
much
it’s worth. Until they all know that, let them learn through their own
errors. :slight_smile:

And those people who are “stealing” your job, they are just doing what
they
can. The problem is not with them, it’s with the contractor. When the
contractor is more interested in paying less than to give a hand to its
local economy, that’s the real problem.

Mat


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No, you cannot do anything long in the ISR. Schedule a DPC, and even possibly call ExQueueWorkItem from it to offload the lengthly processing to a worker thread.

Max

----- Original Message -----
From: Shiva Prasad T. S.
To: Windows System Software Developers Interest List
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: [ntdev] Question on ISR

Hi all,

I have a general question on isr…why is isr in non-paged pool and also at DIRQL always…

if i don’t have any time constraint with the what is need to do in ISR, then can i have lenghty operations done in an isr…??

I know, usually this is not allowed, but don’t know the reason…

can somebody highlight more on above queries pls…

thanx,

Shiva P

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You’ve been lazy, or unimaginative, or both. You should know in any
technical area that there will be a body of previous discussion and
should take the time to mine it.

As for the outsourcing issue, let’s drop it.


If replying by e-mail, please remove “nospam.” from the address.

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“Steve Dispensa” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> Anybody thought about maintaining a FAQ?

I’m sure lots of people have thought about it.

“Peter Viscarola” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> “shiva prasad” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…

[snip]

> > I would suggest Gary to learn Civic Mannerism first before logging into
> > this user group…It’s none of Gary’s business to comment on our
company…

[snip]

> On the other hand, Mr. Little’s response does strike me as a touch
> xenophobic. Let’s hope I’m wrong.

OK, just WHAT was xenophobic about it? The fact that the OP’s company, in
their own literature, mentions that they are located in Bangalore? Gary
quoted the text, verbatim and in full, from the FRONT PAGE of the OP’s
corporate website. Then he called into question the veracity of one of the
claims in that paragraph. Where’s the xenophobia in that?

See for yourselves:
http://www.rassit.com leads to (when I wrote this, anyway):
http://www.rassit.com/rassweb/htm/newrasshome.htm

Not that Gary needs me to defend him, but this smacks of a knee-jerk
reaction to one of the more passionate discussions of the last few weeks,
and it’s just horse-hooey.

Phil

Philip D. Barila
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As if I need to say it: Not speaking for Seagate.

“J. J. Farrell” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
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> “Steve Dispensa” wrote in message
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> > Anybody thought about maintaining a FAQ?
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> I’m sure lots of people have thought about it.
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Read my previous post on this topic. We’ll make it happen on OSR Online,
with the help of the community. The empty article is already there, just
waiting for folks to contribute.

Again, to make an answer FAQ material just add “FOR FAQ” to the title…
After editing, we’ll put it into the FAQ and credit the poster(s) who
answered the question.

Peter
OSR

“Peter Viscarola” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
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> “J. J. Farrell” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> >
> > “Steve Dispensa” wrote in message
> > news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> > >
> > > Anybody thought about maintaining a FAQ?
> >
> > I’m sure lots of people have thought about it.
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> Read my previous post on this topic. We’ll make it happen on OSR Online,
> with the help of the community.

Yes, that’s wonderful. My point was that lots of people think about
things like “we ought to have a FAQ” all the time. Finding someone
with the time, energy, and enthusiasm to actually do something about
it is a different matter, and a much more interesting one.

Thanks for taking the initiative on this. If I knew enough to contribute
anything, I would.