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Linus and his buggy Wi-Fi drivers (cheekycoder.com)
5 points by bepsays 4205 days ago
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Linus should not be writing drivers for your device because you want it. It's manufacturer's job. OS community could write those drivers properly if they had good documentation. Most of those manufacturers don't want that drivers, because that would mean releasing documentation of their device. This means community must write drivers by reverse-engineering devices which will always cause problems.

Why manufacturers think their documentation is so important is beyond me.