From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262851AbTJPLVf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:21:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262853AbTJPLVf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:21:35 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:45445 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262851AbTJPLVd (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:21:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8E7F2F.3060109@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:21:19 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roberto Di Cosmo CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fedor@karpelevitch.net Subject: Re: Full specifications available for RealTek 8180 wireless chipset References: <16270.23843.175822.920013@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <16270.23843.175822.920013@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roberto Di Cosmo wrote: > Having experienced a large set of delusions using the closed source > drivers for the RealTek 8180 wireless chipset available on > RealTek web site on a stock kernel 2.4.20, that do confirm the > posting of fedor@karpelevitch.net on September 11 2003 about > kernel freeze with stock 2.4.22, I politely complained with > RealTek, suggesting they open the code or release the chipset > specifications to the community. > > I received today the full chipset specifications, that I uploaded > to http://www.dicosmo.org/RTL8180spec_1_3.pdf > > I hope this may help, if somebody is willing to undertake writing > a real, full fledged, Linux-quality driver for this chipset. > > Sorry for not being able to do this myself. Having announced this to thousands of people -- including RealTek subscribers, no doubt -- you have poisoned any effort to write a driver off this obviously-stolen document. I hope others learn from your example, of what NOT to do. Thanks for damaging my efforts to work on this through RealTek, Jeff