Roland Dreier wrote:
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?
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.
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