From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: wireless (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:54:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20060605085451.GA26766@infradead.org> References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605010636.GB17361@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36227 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789AbWFEIyz (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 04:54:55 -0400 To: Jeff Garzik Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060605010636.GB17361@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.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.