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Quotes of the week
People who get angry at an unexpected cc need to get a clue. Or
get slapped.
-- Andrew Morton
Nevertheless, everyone I know that has reviewed the newly released
[Broadcom] driver code is being treated for eye cancer. I wouldn't
expect to see it in F-14.
-- John Linville
In the meantime, people are quite happily shipping the 'offending'
b43 driver in all parts of the world without hearing *anything*
from the authorities. And yet the Broadcom lawyers still seem to
cling to their fantasy that a hackable Open Source driver somehow
puts them at more risk than a just-as-hackable closed-source
driver.
-- David WoodhouseFixing bugs and making other improvements in the closed source driver is much harder than it is in the open driver, of course -- but if all you want to do is remove restrictions on available channels and tweak things like TX power, that's actually fairly easy with the binary drivers. That's why I say 'just as hackable'. (Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 16, 2010 10:14 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] Not responding to the quotes above, I just want to say that this is a very exciting edition of the kernel page, with three significant performance improvements that will impact almost every PC Linux user. For the longest time, it seemed to me that core Linux kernel development/optimization was mostly focused on narrow use cases that have little relevance to day-to-day use. Is there any particular reason why all these developments were published now at once, all of a sudden?
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 16, 2010 14:20 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
> Is there any particular reason why all these developments were published now at once, all of a sudden?
Perhaps the stars are right?
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 17, 2010 2:13 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Ia! Ia! Linus Torvals f'taghn!
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 17, 2010 17:42 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
"it seemed to me that core Linux kernel development/optimization was mostly focused on narrow use cases that have little relevance to day-to-day use."
I don't suspect you have any idea how many Linux devices and systems you actually "use" every day then.
Broadcom driver causing cancer Posted Sep 18, 2010 13:32 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Allow me to understand correctly: Broadcom released an open-source driver for their wireless chips but, if I'm to interpret John Linville's comment properly, the code is beyond crappy?
Broadcom driver causing cancer Posted Sep 18, 2010 13:44 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Yep. It usually is. Takes a revision closer to a rewrite to get it merged. Not uncommon for vendor code when the vendor is new to Linux.
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