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Linus Torvalds

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Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
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Torvalds, Linus (2001-01-12). Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch. Retrieved on 2012-06-22.

 
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