From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
Cc: Tom Cooksey <thomas.cooksey@trolltech.com>,
linux-embedded mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting physical addresses of mmap'd pages from userspace
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:27:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015182753.GG9852@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F4BEFA.10801@billgatliff.com>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:47:06AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> One would think that in the world of high-technology, there would be a
> huge upside to making products easy to use, which would naturally
> require free availability of documentation and code (among other
> things). But vendors seem to work contrary to that objective, which
> must mean that there's an even bigger upside to NOT making a product
> easy to use.
Your argumentation neglects the possibility that vendors just do it the
way they always did. Don't assume that some intelligent life form has
mandatorily taken an intentional decision :)
rsc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-10 16:15 Getting physical addresses of mmap'd pages from userspace Tom Cooksey
2008-10-10 16:37 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-10-10 19:12 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-10-13 6:33 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-10-13 7:00 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-10-13 7:20 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-10-13 7:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-10-13 7:31 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-10-13 12:50 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-10-13 13:23 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-10-13 15:58 ` George G. Davis
2008-10-13 16:09 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-10-14 6:36 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-10-14 15:47 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-10-15 7:06 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-10-15 8:30 ` James Chapman
2008-10-15 18:27 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2008-10-15 18:29 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-10-13 9:37 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
[not found] ` <48F31155.6090603@codefidence.com>
2008-10-13 9:38 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-10-13 12:48 ` Bill Gatliff
2008-10-13 14:45 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-10-13 15:09 ` Daniel THOMPSON
2008-10-13 17:21 ` George G. Davis
2008-10-13 17:29 ` Chris
2008-10-14 6:46 ` Tom Cooksey
2008-10-14 7:31 ` Daniel J Laird
2008-10-14 9:03 ` Tom Cooksey
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