Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262101AbTKTQrN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:47:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262104AbTKTQrN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:47:13 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:18618 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262101AbTKTQrK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:47:10 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PBR Streetgang Message-ID: References: <20031120031137.GA8465@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3FBC3483.4060706@pobox.com> <20031120040034.GF19856@holomorphy.com> <3FBC5036.3020503@pobox.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 14 jgarzik@pobox.com said: > Who brought binary drivers into this? And when I have ever advocated > binary drivers? > > ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this > thread)... to assist in reverse engineering. That may be your intention, but as soon as cards exist that can only be made to work with ndis-wrapped drivers, you can be sure that the masses won't wait for the reverse-engineering to be completed. So all the nvidia-video-type problems _will_ start showing up in a big population of laptops and such too. Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/