Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06T19:41:41Z

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>Let's hope the rev-eng people do it the right way, by having one team
>>write a document, and a totally separate team write the driver from
>>that document.

> Isn't it also legal for a single person or team to capture all IO
> to/from the device with a bus analyzer or kernel debugger and write a
> driver from that, as long as you don't disassemble the original driver?

It's still legally shaky. The "Chinese wall" approach I described above
is beyond reproach, and that's where Linux needs to be.

Jeff