Re: copy_from_user/copy_to_user question

linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-06T19:58:12Z

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:23 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>
>>
>> (note)__assess__ means even "peek at".
>>
>> FYI, there should never even be such a question.
>
> Dick, be nice. I get the impression that Vinay is just looking at some
> code that he can't disclose because of some policy of the company he
> works for. He's curiously looking at the code of some non-mainstream
> driver (either GPL or some NDA version) and is questioning what he sees.
> Not everyone that does this is a kernel hacker. This is the way I
> started, and these questions, which may seem so obvious to a veteran
> kernel hacker, is not so to a novice.
>
> -- Steve

Yes. You are correct. But he already asked the same questions yesterday
and was answered by many, including me, in many nice ways. So, sorry
for not being nice.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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