On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 23:17:11 Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a "lucky" owner of a Syntek USB webcam (embedded on my Asus
> laptop); as you might know Nicolas (CC) wrote a driver for these
> cams[1][2], but it's still not included in mainline kernel.
> Since I'd rather save myself and the other users the pain of compiling
> an out-of-tree driver I'm offering my help to make the changes
> necessary to see this driver upstreamed; I'm already a maintainer of
> another driver (in hwmon), so I'm familiar with the development
> process.
> From a quick overview of the code I've spotted a few problems:
> - minor style issues, trivially dealt with
> - missing cleanups in error paths, idem
> - possible memory leak, reported on the bug tracker - requires investigation
> - big switch statements for all the models, could be simplified with
> function pointers
>
> Another objection could be that the initialization is basically
> writing magic numbers into magic registers... I guess that Nicolas
> recorded the initialization sequence with a USB sniffer. No solution
> for this one; does anybody have a contact inside Syntek?
>
> Are there other issues blocking the inclusion of this driver?
After a quick scan through the sources in svn I found the following (in no
particular order):
- Supports easycap model with ID 05e1:0408: a driver for this model is now
in driver/staging/easycap.
- format conversion must be moved to libv4lconvert (if that can't already be
used out of the box). Ditto for software brightness correction.
- kill off the sysfs bits
- kill off V4L1
- use the new control framework for the control handling
- use video_ioctl2 instead of the current ioctl function
- use unlocked_ioctl instead of ioctl
But probably the first step should be to see if this can't be made part of the
gspca driver. I can't help thinking that that would be the best approach. But
I guess the gspca developers can give a better idea of how hard that is.
Regards,
Hans
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Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco
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