I've always been confused by the situation with Realtek Linux drivers.
Does anyone know why they are not contributing to the kernel directly? (Just a guess: their drivers are from the same codebase as the Windows driver and use a bunch of abstraction layers that wouldn't be acceptable in Linux)
Does anyone know why they are not contributing to the kernel directly? (Just a guess: their drivers are from the same codebase as the Windows driver and use a bunch of abstraction layers that wouldn't be acceptable in Linux)