On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:21 AM, John Talbut <jt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I suspect the reason why we have two drivers is that Realtek choose to > develop out of tree drivers instead of collaborating with the kernel > developers to get proper in kernel drivers. I do not see the logic in their > doing this, it does the reputation of their company no good and it is more > trouble for everyone involved. Likely they do it because they have an OS abstraction layer and it allows them to share the same source code between several different OSes and OS versions. It is a lot of work to have to write and update multiple versions of a driver for different OSes, especially if you have limited development resources. It does Linux no good to bad mouth these companies when they provide working Linux drivers with source code. What advantage does writing a "native" Linux driver provide for them other than extra maintenance work? Alex _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
