Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:26:55 +0100 |
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Ar Llu, 2006-06-05 am 10:45 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven: > It's just that a cleanroom approach is a sure way to prove > you didn't copy. That's all.
Which is an extremely important detail especially if you have been reverse engineering another driver for the same or similar OS where it is likely that people will retain knowledge and copy rather than re-implement things.
We've had "fun" with this before and the pwc camera driver. I don't want to see a repeat of that.
Alan
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