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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote:

>> If the vendor is supporting the driver, and working with the community,
>> then one would hope that they would also fix the driver as bug reports
>> come in about it ...
>
> That's too many ifs to be realworld-compatible.
>
> And actually the only vendors I can think of which are working with the
> community actually provide documentation, if only because it is simpler
> for them to spend time on documentation than on code for N different
> systems.

ICP Vortex (aka Adaptec) were providing drivers on their web site for 
FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x that are included in both source trees ... it was a 
binary driver, as far as I'm aware, but source code ... and Adaptec 
doesn't provide documentation ...