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On Tue, 30 November 2004 03:11:15 +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com> writes:
> >> > Joern Engel wrote a mphysmap driver some time ago.  It works fairly
> >> > well.  You might be able to find it if you google for it.  Not sure why
> >> > it wasn't included in MTD CVS.
> >> 
> >> Various people have written something like this at different times
> >> :->.
> >
> > Indeed.  Joern's just happened to be the one I am most familiar with. 
> > But since lots of different implementations have been written, it makes
> > one wonder why none are in CVS...
> 
> Open Source Mantra: 'Not my problem'.

And embedded seems to be extremely devoted to that mantra.  It was
quite a learning experience (buzzword of the year) to figure that one
out.  Writing code is just 1% of the work.  Debugging it is 9%.
Getting it into some standard (Linux kernel, libc, whatever) is 90%.

And with the 'Not my problem.' mentality, the whole 90% are left to
the original author, who finally gives up and moves on to something
less frustrating.  Or at least gets a job and has someone pay for it.

Jörn

-- 
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
-- B. Franklin