fre 2005-02-25 klockan 21:07 -0800 skrev Greg KH: >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...) IIRC, Alan Cox stepped up as a maintainer of the driver, and it's included in the -ac patchset. /Peter
