linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:12:31 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
CC:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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

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