Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:29:27 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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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.
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