> Open Source has lots of benefits for code review, bug hunting and testing. > All those benefits are not possible for the OCO modules and thus hinder > these better development practises.
Which is why we have brought up several times to split these network drivers into a common part supplied in source (and copied from Rubini's probably) and a small piece supplied in object code only that does not depend on the kernel level and configuration chosen. Since only very few could understand the details of the hardware device anyway, the leverage of open source for those parts would probably be less. A pragmatic approach could be not to have those parts in source code. Rob
