Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030522AbXAaScL (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:32:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030526AbXAaScK (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:32:10 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:53161 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030522AbXAaScJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:32:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:29:27 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: alan cc: Roland Dreier , Greg KH , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <45BFA087.6020905@garzik.org> <20070130214759.GA12477@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 31 On Jan 31 2007 09:58, alan wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :( > > ndiswrapper is a way to make it work "now" as opposed to "correct". > There is a lot that you cannot do with ndiswrapper that a proper driver > can. The fear is that a vendor might not open things because it works "reasonably enough" (for them as well as the enduser) at "this time". E.g. I got sis162u.inf for some usb wireless adapter, it works enough, but of course I am not too happy with the binary blob because it might have some not-so-"correct" core that could silently oops me away. Jan -- - 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/