From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932488AbVHaI2f (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:28:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932489AbVHaI2f (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:28:35 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:54733 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932488AbVHaI2e (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:28:34 -0400 From: Florian Weimer To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver References: <6278d22205081711115b404a9b@mail.gmail.com> <20050818205821.GA30510@localhost.localdomain> <4304F80F.10302@pobox.com> <87ll2ibkuk.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20050831081636.GA28280@oepkgtn.mshome.net> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:28:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050831081636.GA28280@oepkgtn.mshome.net> (Mateusz Berezecki's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:16:36 +0200") Message-ID: <87hdd6a4tp.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Mateusz Berezecki: > Florian Weimer wrote: > -> The FTC issues are shared by many (most?) wireless drivers. The > -> copyright/trade secret issues might be worked around by basing the > -> work on the OpenBSD version of that driver (and someone is actually > -> working on that). > > the problem with openbsd version of the hal is that it is - sorry to > say that - fundamentally broken, at least it was last time I was > checking. It's better than nothing, that is, it worked for us when we gave it a try. And it seems to be relatively unencumbered.