Re: [PATCH 0/3] Deprecate drivers

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On Tuesday 02 December 2014 16:40:30 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> This patch series deprecates the vino/saa7191 video driver (ancient SGI
> Indy computer), the parallel port webcams bw-qcam, c-qcam and w9966, the
> ISA video capture driver pms and the USB video capture tlg2300 driver.
>
> Hardware for these devices is next to impossible to obtain, these drivers
> haven't seen any development in ages, they often use deprecated APIs and
> without hardware that's very difficult to port. And cheap alternative
> products are easily available today.

Just bought a QuickCam Pro parallel and some unknown parallel port webcam.
Will you accept patches? :)

> So move these drivers to staging for 3.19 and plan on removing them in
> 3.20.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Hans

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