atheros chips dangerous?

[Barkley Vowk]

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.