When will someone write documentation that tells you what the bits mean rather than what they set? I have been working to integrate a library into our system, and every time I try to figure out what it wants from my code, all it tells me is what a part of it is: "This is the foo field." The problem is that it does not tell me what happens when I set foo. It is as if I am supposed to know that already.
Nowhere is this problem more prevalent than in hardware documentation. I am sure Dante listed a special ring of hell for people who document this way, telling you what something is while never explaining the why or how.
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