Re: Reverse engineering (was Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario)

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Lee Revell wrote:
> Should this high barrier to entry for reverse engineered drivers be
> documented anywhere?  I would have expected black box reverse
> engineering to be OK for Linux driver development.

As I said, the potential for problems is very high.  I did not say it 
was unacceptable.  The barrier for entry is higher, though, yes.

The current case in point is several reverse-engineered wireless 
drivers.  I am not inclined to merge a few of the questionable projects, 
but the Broadcom wireless project seems to have been done right, so it 
will likely get merged quickly (once it passes quality/code reviews, etc.)

	Jeff


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