> > > 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.

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