Re: atheros chips dangerous?

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

The Atheros driver in FreeBSD is maintained and compiled by Sam Leffler,
who has been around since BSD 4.2 in the early eighties sometimes.

I trust Sam.

I don't think that quite answers his question however. Its not so much a matter of trusting Sam, but a matter of trusting that Sam had enough access to the binary objects in question to have eliminated the errors in them. While I see that his name is in the copyright notice on the contrib code, I don't see anything to indicate that most of the code isn't shared between most platforms. So there might be a good chance that whatever bugs affect the OsX drivers, also affect the freebsd ones.

That being said, I do trust Sam, and code written by Sam. I don't know however if this blob of code I'm loading was actually written by Sam, or just wrapped to work on freebsd by Sam.

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