Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> writes: > I've seen this happen to other open source related projects using > Marvell hardware as well, so the big question is whether Belkin can put > enough pressure on them to get the source code released. > > Even if that happens, the source code will most likely need a rewrite or > an insane amount of cleanup, as is typical for proprietary wifi drivers > in the embedded space. > > There are many signs that if released, the source code to this driver is > going to be horrible: weird function names, big module size, use of > custom vendor-specific hostapd and wpa_supplicant drivers. This is most > likely going to take a long time to resolve.
I know these comments are based on experience, but I still feel you are a bit too pessimistic here :-) After all, we do have the mwl8k driver in mainline and Marvell has commited a lot to that, including the 8764 bits. It's not too unlikely that they will add 8864 support as well, is it? And wrt the size: Some of this is probably due to firmware being built into the module. And some is debugging symbols. The rest is of course bloat mostly caused by unnecessary reimplementation. Bjørn _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
