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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 - 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/ | ||||||||||
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