Roland Dreier wrote:
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> Sure, Ralink drivers will get upstream eventually.  But by the time
> the drivers get merged, Ralink will have stopped making the chips that
> it supports (or so I read, http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/)!
> I don't think that taking a year or two to merge a driver is going to
> impress a vendor, especially since the reverse-engineered Broadcom
> wireless driver is probably going to go upstream at just about the
> same time.

You mean the bcm43xx wireless driver that's been upstream for months?


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> 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.

Most vendors are likely to focus on examples that are in the statistical 
(and competitive) majority, where publishing specs led to a driver 
supported by an enterprise distro.

	Jeff


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