From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750789AbWFEIy4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 04:54:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750805AbWFEIy4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 04:54:56 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36227 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789AbWFEIyz (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 04:54:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:54:51 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Message-ID: <20060605085451.GA26766@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605010636.GB17361@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060605010636.GB17361@havoc.gtf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:06:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch > > fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch > > tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-warnings.patch > > tiacx-pci-build-fix.patch > > tiacx-ia64-fix.patch > > > > It is about time we did something with this large and presumably useful > > wireless driver. > > I've never had technical objections to merging this, just AFAIK it had a > highly questionable origin, namely being reverse-engineered in a > non-clean-room environment that might leave Linux legally vulnerable. As are at leasdt a fourth of linux drivers. Andrew, please just go ahead and merge it (I'll do another review ASAP). Please don't let this reverse engineering idiocy hinder wireless driver adoption, we're already falling far behind openbsd who are very successfull reverse engineering lots of wireless chipsets.