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Message-ID: <adaireop383.fsf@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:19:24 -0800 From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! > 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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