Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751917AbXA3WTa (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:19:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751971AbXA3WT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:19:29 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-1-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.70]:21551 "EHLO sj-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751740AbXA3WT0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:19:26 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.13,259,1167638400"; d="scan'208"; a="761088689:sNHT42930168" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <45BFA087.6020905@garzik.org> <20070130214759.GA12477@kroah.com> <45BFC2CF.8010603@garzik.org> From: Roland Dreier Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:19:24 -0800 In-Reply-To: <45BFC2CF.8010603@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:31 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jan 2007 22:19:24.0999 (UTC) FILETIME=[B2F06D70:01C744BC] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-1; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim1004 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 21 > You mean the bcm43xx wireless driver that's been upstream for months? Sorry, yes. For some reason I thought it was blocked on the dscape merge but obviously I was wrong. So a reverse-engineered driver got upstream WAY FASTER than a driver where the vendor published specs and GPLed source. Why did that happen? I would argue that it was because way more people cared about the broadcom driver (since the chip was in apple laptops and the wrt54g among other things). That developer and user interest is more important than the info provided by the vendor. Anyway, I broke my first promise to drop this thread, but I'll make the promise again now... - R. - 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/