From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:54:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060605085451.GA26766@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060605010636.GB17361@havoc.gtf.org>
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:06:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch
> > fix-tiacx-on-alpha.patch
> > tiacx-fix-attribute-packed-warnings.patch
> > tiacx-pci-build-fix.patch
> > tiacx-ia64-fix.patch
> >
> > It is about time we did something with this large and presumably useful
> > wireless driver.
>
> I've never had technical objections to merging this, just AFAIK it had a
> highly questionable origin, namely being reverse-engineered in a
> non-clean-room environment that might leave Linux legally vulnerable.
As are at leasdt a fourth of linux drivers. Andrew, please just go ahead
and merge it (I'll do another review ASAP).
Please don't let this reverse engineering idiocy hinder wireless driver
adoption, we're already falling far behind openbsd who are very successfull
reverse engineering lots of wireless chipsets.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-05 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-06-05 1:06 ` wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Jeff Garzik
2006-06-05 1:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-05 8:33 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-05 8:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 10:26 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-05 10:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 10:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-10 6:58 ` Pavel Machek
2006-06-05 8:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-06-05 12:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-05 12:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 12:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-05 14:02 ` Linux kernel and laws Adrian Bunk
2006-06-05 14:21 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-06-06 5:33 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-05 13:27 ` wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) John W. Linville
2006-06-05 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-05 13:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05 16:24 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-29 14:26 ` ACX100 (softmac-based) driver ready to merge, but is it legal? -- " John W. Linville
[not found] ` <20060629144233.GB24463@tuxdriver.com>
2006-06-29 14:47 ` [Acx100-users] Denis Vlasenko, where are you? (mail bounced) Andreas Mohr
2006-07-06 17:29 ` ACX100 (softmac-based) driver ready to merge, but is it legal? Denis Vlasenko
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