On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:25:50AM +0100, Peter Backlund wrote: > Hello. > > I'd like to see the ITE 8212 IDE/RAID pci card driver > ( CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8212) and the pwc webcam driver back in the kernel. > Is there any reason why they were removed? The pwc driver author asked for it to be removed. It no longer has a maintainer nor anyone who wants to support it. Until then it will remain outside of the kernel tree (and _someone_ needs to actually submit it for inclusion...) thanks, greg k-h