Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 00:29:02 EST


William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> And what good would it be to have an entire driver subsystem populated
>> by binary-only drivers? That's not part of Linux, that's "welcome to
>> nvidia hell" for that subsystem too, and not just graphics cards.
>> I say we should go the precise opposite direction and take a hard line
>> stance against binary drivers, lest we find there are none left we even
>> have source to and are bombarded with unfixable bugreports.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:25:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Who brought binary drivers into this? And when I have ever advocated
> binary drivers?
> ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this
> thread)... to assist in reverse engineering.

Hmm, maybe I've gotten the whole purpose of the thread wrong. =(


-- wli
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