Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751596AbXA3WMe (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751747AbXA3WMe (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:34 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:50929 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751572AbXA3WMd (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:33 -0500 Message-ID: <45BFC2CF.8010603@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:31 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <45BFA087.6020905@garzik.org> <20070130214759.GA12477@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1129 Lines: 28 Roland Dreier wrote: > Sure, Ralink drivers will get upstream eventually. But by the time > the drivers get merged, Ralink will have stopped making the chips that > it supports (or so I read, http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/)! > I don't think that taking a year or two to merge a driver is going to > impress a vendor, especially since the reverse-engineered Broadcom > wireless driver is probably going to go upstream at just about the > same time. You mean the bcm43xx wireless driver that's been upstream for months? > An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs, > since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as > fast anyway. Most vendors are likely to focus on examples that are in the statistical (and competitive) majority, where publishing specs led to a driver supported by an enterprise distro. Jeff - 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/