Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:17:36 -0800 (PST) | From | alan <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Jan 31 2007 09:58, alan wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote: >>>> >>>> An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs, >>>> since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as >>>> fast anyway. >>> >>> And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :( >> >> ndiswrapper is a way to make it work "now" as opposed to "correct". >> There is a lot that you cannot do with ndiswrapper that a proper driver >> can. > > The fear is that a vendor might not open things because it works > "reasonably enough" (for them as well as the enduser) at "this time". > E.g. I got sis162u.inf for some usb wireless adapter, it works > enough, but of course I am not too happy with the binary blob because > it might have some not-so-"correct" core that could silently oops me > away.
Of course, the vendors need to realize that such problems will be blamed on the hardware and not on the drivers. "But I was using the Windows drivers!"
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