From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200805121320.m4CDKsX02428@demeter.cs.utwente.nl> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 May 2008 14:52:08 +0200." <9f3897940805120552j2524b4ael7ea0092754ce0266@mail.gmail.com> References: <200805121010.m4CAAJX14857@demeter.cs.utwente.nl> <9f3897940805120552j2524b4ael7ea0092754ce0266@mail.gmail.com> From: Axel Belinfante MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2425.1210598454.1@demeter> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:20:54 +0200 Subject: Re: [9fans] Bitsy's WaveLAN problem Topicbox-Message-UUID: a5267088-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > > I copied what seemed to be the necessary bits from a lunix driver. > > > while I did get it working, I got carried away making other changes > > > inspired by the lunix driver, to the point where I no longer felt > > > like proposing it as a patch. I may help you, though. > > > I put it on sources under contrib/axel/wlanfastkey > > > > i don't understand. if it adds 802.1x stuff, and fixes bugs > > why should it not be submitted? too much gratious change, too much copy/paste hacking, too little insight, (too little cleanup?) > Maybe OS advocacy had gone to levels where the notion of adding things > from other OS is frowned upon by those who did it, regardless of the > code in question... lack of confidence about quality of result, especially when I saw more ether errors than I remembered seeing before. "it seemed to work" does not feel so convincing. Axel.