support for EasyCap Somagic driver (smi2021)

Are there any plans to include the smi2021 driver in the vanilla kernel any time soon? This driver is for the EasyCap Somagic usb framegrabbers: https://code.google.com/p/easycap-somagic-linux/wiki/BuildingKernelModule#Compile The latest version of the driver is due to Jon Arne and can be found

i8042 error

I have this old dell inspiron 2600 laptop with dual boot XP and Fedora 12 running some version of the 2.6 kernel and the keyboard and the mousepad are dead in linux. When I boot linux I get this error message: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042 which is in i8042.c. Past that point, I can't i