On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:06:07 -0500 Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:12:58PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > There are many out-of-tree drivers (ivtv, lirc, various webcam drivers, > > > enhanced USB keyboard handlers...) with merging not planified or taking > > > ages. > > > > See my above comment about lirc. As for the others, everyone knows > > where we are at, and what the critera is for getting their code into the > > tree, so it's not like we are hiding anywhere :) > > The webcam situation has bugged me a few times. I regularly get reports > from our users that they buy some new ov5xx based camera, and the in-tree > driver doesn't work. The out of tree one is a huge delta, and even > begat a separate driver for the later chips iirc. > > I contacted the upstream author a number of times to find out why he > stopped sending updates. No replies. Just taking his driver and > sending updates myself seemed kinda rude, but at the same time, > users are losing out.
Yes, I've contacted him (or one of him :) several times also since I own one of those not-in-tree webcams... Always some holdup. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
