
LWN
reports: When kernel developers talk about problematic hardware vendors, Atheros often appears near the top of their lists. So
this announcement from Luis Rodriguez, a developer of the reverse-engineered ath5k driver, is intriguing:
"I write to you to inform you that I have decided to join Atheros as a full time employee, as a Software Engineer, to help them with their goals and mission to get every device of Atheros supported upstream in the Linux kernel." What will come of this remains to be seen, but if it truly signals a change of heart at Atheros, it is a most welcome development.
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2006-05-04
I hear ya. Seems unnecessary to hire that guy if they would have just made the documentation available. If the docs were available then everyone would have benefited. Everyone being the BSD camp, Linux camp, Solaris camp, and others.