Mateusz Berezecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The driver is not yet fully working because I didn't finish kernel > integration yet. Almost all > driver I/O ops are reverse engineered independently of openbsd openhal > which is missing just too much. > > > Ok, enough talking. Most of the atheros 5212 hal is now open :)
This is great news. An open source Atheros driver which could be included to Linux is really needed. But how was the reverse engineering done? I noticed that forcedeth driver was implemented using the clean room design[1] and Linux Broadcom 4301 driver project[2] seems to be using the same method. The reason I'm asking this is that I just wouldn't want see the same happening this with this driver as happened during reverse engineering of pwc Philips Webcam driver (some parts of the driver were removed from kernel, but I believe the situation is now solved). Actually, what are requirements to get a reverse engineered driver included to Linux? Is clean room design an absolute must? It seems that reverse engineering is needed if we want Linux support for most of the WLAN cards on the market :( [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design [2] http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/go/progress -- Kalle Valo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
