On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 11:22 schrieb Tuukka Toivonen:
Besides, format conversions _are not allowed_ in the kernel. They belong
into userspace.
Well, there's no need to be dogmatic about it. In a basic sense any driver
is performing a format conversi
Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 11:22 schrieb Tuukka Toivonen:
> Besides, format conversions _are not allowed_ in the kernel. They belong
> into userspace.
Well, there's no need to be dogmatic about it. In a basic sense any driver
is performing a format conversion.
> Nemosoft: you should not have
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
I have one of those philips cams (bought it because I saw pwc in the kernel
source), but I found out that without pwcx is was next to useless. I haven't
Could you elaborate why it is next to useless? I think 95% of Linux
web camera drivers don't support a
Hi there,
I'm very sad to read about that story...
I don't know all of the background, I first read
http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ then went to lkml to read a bit more
about it.
I just don't understand why Nemosoft did remove all his work (sources,
doc, and stuff). I don't like to be taken host
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:58:59AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 01:04, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:58:24AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> > If you want to send me a patch to tell me to rip the whole driver out,
> > fine I will, no problems,
Hello,
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 01:04, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:58:24AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> If you want to send me a patch to tell me to rip the whole driver out,
> fine I will, no problems, I completly understand.
I don't think you do.
> But realize that anyone c
Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
Actually, I've got a little surprise for you. The NDA I signed with Philips
has already expired a year ago. Yet, I didn't just throw the decompressor
code on the Internet. First, there could still be legal remedies since the
cams are still in production to this very day. Sec
Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 05:04 schrieb Phil Dibowitz:
> Hmmm, I saw that comment by Linus, and I am obviously by no means as
> emersed in kernel development as ... well, either of you ... but I took
> Linus' comment to mean more that the kernel will not be changed to work
> around odd behavi
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:35:16AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> Bummer. This is rubbish. And I am sure that this is not the intention of
> Linus comments. IF the module would be NON functional without the closed
> plugin, then yes, rip it out. But it is useable, and this hook *can* be
> used
On Die, 24 Aug 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> > * you are going to accept that there is a driver in the Linux kernel that
> > has a hook that _may_ be used to load a binary-only decompressor part into
> > the kernel, at the user's disgression. Maybe, one day, that part will be
> > open source too but I
Greg wrote:
Actually, in thinking about this even more, I just realized that I have
to rip this hook out. I say this because we are allowing a change to
the kernel that is needed _only_ for a closed source module. See
Linus's comments about "if a change is needed to be made to the kernel
in order
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:58:24AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> Anyway
>
> I've just about had it with the increasing
> "we-don't-want-binary-stuff-in-Linux" attitude lately. If you rip out this
> hook for PWC (pwc_register_decompressor), which would make it impossible to
> load a decompre
Hello,
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 00:10, you wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:05:36AM -0700, Fr?d?ric Detienne wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 21:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Fr?d?ric Detienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I suppose this is not the only place where we
> > > > prepare AP
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