From: Hauke M. <ha...@ha...> - 2012-10-18 19:56:14
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Hi, nice to hear that someone is working on that issue. Hopefully this will result in the mainline inclusion of this driver soon. Hauke On 10/13/2012 07:04 PM, Oliver Winker wrote: > Hi, > > The clarification of the legal question is currently still an ongoing > project and within this context also contacts to TI have been > established. Until now however there no consolidated status yet, but it > will be followed up. > > Surely there are a number of reasons, why an mainline inclusion is > desirable, also for this driver/hw. In the meanwhile, thanks a > lot in any case for your patch for the 3.7.0 adaptations. > > Best Regards, Oliver > > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:06:32 +0200 > Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@ha...> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This driver wasn't included into mainline linux kernel because of >> legal problems concerting the reverse engineering of the binary TI >> driver to develop this driver. >> >> One way was to ask TI to allow this driver being licensed under the >> GPL also if it could contain their intellectual property originally >> not covered by that license. [1] As TI started to work with the open >> source community some years ago and also works on a open source >> driver for some more recent wifi cards by them self, did someone >> recently (in the last few years) asked the TI guys if they could >> allow this driver to be licensed under the terms of the GPL, also if >> it could contain their intellectual property? >> >> I am currently not using this driver and I have to search for my >> cards I have last seen some years ago, but it really sucks to have an >> out of tree driver. If someone changes the API to mac80211 or any >> other in kernel API you have to adapt these changes by your self like >> this one: [2]. >> >> Hauke >> >> [0]: >> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/acx100/index.php?title=History >> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/5/39 [2]: >> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/acx-mac80211/patches/001-make-compatible-with-recent-mac80211.patch >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic >> APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly >> what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app >> Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Acx100-users mailing list >> Acx...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acx100-users >> > |