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[Hans de Goede]

Mike A. Harris wrote:

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Taking the fact that even if disabled in software this driver causes 
stability problems, I fully understand the complete removal, thanks for 
explaining.

So I agree with you except for:

> 
> The extremely small subset of users for whom this driver actually
> works, and is stable, are free to recompile things if they like, but
> with the obvious caveat that we don't support it at all, and don't
> support systems that have it loaded any more than we support 3rd
> party proprietary drivers.
> 

I understand the don't support part, but I have to disagree with the any 
more then propietary drivers, that is saying sure its open source but it 
really is no better then a closed driver since its reversed engineered.

I agree reverse engineered is less good then based on specs, but it 
still beats a closed driver hands down. Especially since specs are 
almost always not 100% correct so driver writing is always a bit 
guessing / reverse engineering.

Regards,

Hans