ipw3945 packaging

[Dax Kelson]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 18:18 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> sorry, I'll take it back. I found the article (for German readers):
> 
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/70092&words=ipw3945
> 
> and the quote was from Dax Kelson:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/32622
> 
> So, indeed no love for ipw3945.

Correct, my quote was not about the firmware it was:

"It is very disappointing to see this binary user space daemon (that
must run as root, presumably to write into /sys/) requirement. I
recognize that it is a better poison than a binary kernel module."

Basically, I'd rather have a closed userspace app whisper the secret
numbers to the hardware than have a close/binary only kernel module do
the same.

Presumable somebody can sniff out what those secret numbers are (in a
legal fashion) then the someone can fork a new driver that includes that
functionality. Goodbye closed userspace app!

The question is, would Jeff Garzik / Linus accept the forked driver into
the kernel?

Dax Kelson