Re: Reverse engineering (was Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario)

Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06T23:48:48Z

Lee Revell wrote:
> Should this high barrier to entry for reverse engineered drivers be
> documented anywhere? I would have expected black box reverse
> engineering to be OK for Linux driver development.

As I said, the potential for problems is very high. I did not say it
was unacceptable. The barrier for entry is higher, though, yes.

The current case in point is several reverse-engineered wireless
drivers. I am not inclined to merge a few of the questionable projects,
but the Broadcom wireless project seems to have been done right, so it
will likely get merged quickly (once it passes quality/code reviews, etc.)

Jeff