Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ipw3945 status | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:01:17 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 12:47 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:34:19PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote: > > > Why not get rid of the daemon like bsd did [0]? Otherwise in > > 5 years you'll have 42 daemons running which communicate with > > the firmware of various devices, each having a different inter- > > face. > > Because it would involve a moderate rewriting of the driver, and we'd > have to carry a delta against Intel's code forever. without knowing this for sure, dont you think that if a largely changed version of the driver appeared in the tree, intel may start developing on that? cause then they wouldnt be the ones that "broke" compliance with FCC(hah) by not doing binaryonly. >
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