Memory footprints in website

[Steve deRosier]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 5:59 AM Krishna Chaitanya
<chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Either way looks like the website text needs an update, as customers
> just refers to that expect to match reality.
>

"customers"?  I'm sorry, but did you PAY money to use hostapd? To the
actual maintainers?

There is a misconception that keeps happening; I saw it on the
linux-wireless list a couple of days ago. Often people who use
open-source software seem to think that just because they USE it means
that they can make DEMANDS on maintainers. Maintainers are volunteers.
The vast majority of which are not paid to do this work in any way.
Sometimes their paid job in the past included some work that was in
the area of what they maintain, but as often happens, they keep the
maintainership up long after it is nothing but an interest. And
demands make it an unpleasant thing to keep working on.  This is how
we keep losing maintainers.

And furthermore, have you EVER seen documentation that actually
matches reality?  In my experience, it's usually out-of-date within
moments of when it gets posted.

Please feel free to do the work to figure out the correct figures
(keeping in mind that of course it will be different on different
architectures, configurations, and even compilers) and submit a patch
against the website text. I'm sure the maintainers would be thrilled
to update it if someone did so.

To the maintainers of hostapd and linux-wireless: THANK YOU FOR YOUR
WORK, we appreciate you.

- Steve