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

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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