From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:26:55 +0100 Message-ID: <1149503215.30554.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605010636.GB17361@havoc.gtf.org> <20060604181515.8faa8fcf.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605083321.GA15690@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> <1149497109.3111.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andreas Mohr , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, Denis Vlasenko , acx100-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, acx100-users@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:60387 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750866AbWFEKNU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 06:13:20 -0400 To: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: <1149497109.3111.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Ar Llu, 2006-06-05 am 10:45 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven: > It's just that a cleanroom approach is a sure way to prove > you didn't copy. That's all. Which is an extremely important detail especially if you have been reverse engineering another driver for the same or similar OS where it is likely that people will retain knowledge and copy rather than re-implement things. We've had "fun" with this before and the pwc camera driver. I don't want to see a repeat of that. Alan