Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:50:07 +0200 | From | Thomas Winischhofer <> | Subject | Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches |
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> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 09:13, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > > >On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > > > If the maintainer wants it pulled, I feel it would be stealing to > > > add it back into the kernel without his approval. Perhaps we could > > > rewrite the driver and merge it with some other webcam driver > > > projects. > > > > > > This is the problem. It is far easier to _feel_ something > > than to _do_ something. > > > > Intersting, that in the legal case, people are having a bad feeling, > > but in illegal case of doing reverse-engineering, drivers make it > > into the kernel... > > >Reverse engineering for interoperability purposes is legal even in the >USA.
Thank you for pointing that out. Really. I mean it.
And nothing else it is.
Happy hacking.
IDA anyone? (objdump does nicely, too. I looked at the disassembler output for about one hour today and my conclusion is that it's a pretty simple job. Knowing the stack concept and the "mov", "call", "lea", "add", "sub", "xor", "sar" and "sh[l|r]" instructions is enough.)
I would do it if I just had the time.
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