On Mon May 14 2012 21:11:57 Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > These two patches deprecate the ISA video capture pms driver and the three > parallel port webcam drivers bw-qcam, c-qcam and w9966. > > Nobody has hardware for the three parallel port webcams anymore (and we really > tried to get hold of some), and my ISA pms board also no longer works (I suspect > the Pentium motherboard I use for testing ISA cards is too fast :-) ). > > I've given up on these drivers. I've posted a pull request to get these drivers > up to speed with regards to the latest frameworks (the pms update has already > been merged), and I think that should be the last change before removing them > altogether. If someone ever gets working hardware for these drivers, then they > are easy to resurrect from the git history should there be a desire to do so. > > ISA and parallel port are both unsuitable for streaming video, so this hardware > is really obsolete. I'm shelving this RFC for the time being. I suddenly have leads on all three parallel port webcams so with a bit of luck I might have actual hardware to test these drivers in a few weeks time. It's still not useful to anyone of course, but as long as I can test ancient hardware I'm happy :-) Regards, Hans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
