Peter Viscarola wrote:
The order of PCI resources is a perfect example of a glaring technical
deficiency. Nobody I’ve ever met at Microsoft WANTS the DDK to be ambiguous
or annoying.If it’s a problem, please REPORT A BUG. Wouldn’t it be more satisfying to
be able to say “I got this fixed in the most recent DDK” than there’s long
been an “absence of documentation” on this topic?
Well, the community’s long experience is that Microsoft doesn’t respond
to bug reports, so you don’t ever know if they’ve heard you. When you
(Peter) are wearing your “minion of Jean” hat, you’ve done an excellent
job of responding. You’re to be commended for the DDK bug bash, too. But
it will take a long time to turn the common perception around.
In the particular case of the order of I/O resource descriptors, I’ve
always assumed that the ambiguity in the DDK was an example of not
documenting something because Microsoft wanted to be able to change it.
(As opposed to not documenting it through oversight.) I think I first
described the facts in print in a two-part MSJ article many years ago.
People out here in the real world would assume, as I did, that
responsible people inside Microsoft reviewed those articles and the
subsequent books by me and others thoughtfully enough to spot areas for
improvement. In fact, I see signs of that kind of review all through the
DDK.
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