Re: 3945ABG wireless Driver and drm for i945GM issues

Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:43:07 +0100
> Vince <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > that the big discontinued all across his website mean he's no longer
> > working on the freebsd driver.
> > Does anyone know if this is the case
> 
> Funny you should ask. A few weeks ago I tested the driver on FreeBSD
> 6.1, found that it didn't work (nobody had siad that it would work,
> either), and sent Damien a mail wirth my findings.
> In his reply, he stated that the wpi driver for FreeBSD was developed
> for his own personal use, and that he don't plan on any further
> development of this driver. He stated that he maintains the driver in
> OpenBSD.

See <http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497/print> for the reason
(from his point of view of course):

|I've been a FreeBSD src committer for a bit more than
|a year. I've been trying to maintain my ipw, iwi, ral,
|and ural drivers inside the FreeBSD source tree.
|
|I left the FreeBSD project a few weeks ago. Some developers
|started to commit code in my drivers without even asking for
|my approval while others were publicly criticizing my work
|in talks where I did not attend so I didn't have a chance
|to reply. Because of this, I was no longer having fun working
|in FreeBSD so I left. This is kind of sad since I still have
|a lot of respect for most FreeBSD developers.

Fabian
-- 
http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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