On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 10:58 +0200, Michael Renzmann wrote: > >> How about a "Linux Wireless Foundation"? Some kind of official entity that >> wireless vendors could talk to for Linux support, certification process >> for getting the logo, and so on. > > My concern is that giving any certification would imply that we promise > to keep the driver in the Linux sources. However, I don't think we can > accept legal obligations on behalf of the developers. > > Linus can remove any driver at any time. We can hope that he will act > rationally, but even then, the driver may be found to have fundamental > problems after the certification. If Linus removes a driver for a > certified device, will "Linux Wireless Foundation" fork the kernel? I'm not really concerned about that, I think we're side tracking a bit from the original intention behind this thing which is to help users get stuff that works on Linux and is supported. For now it seems reasonable to get the driver in Linus' tree and to have support for it. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
