On 12/02/14 23:42, Ondrej Zary wrote: > 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? :) OK, so there is some confusion here. You aren't offering to work on any of the deprecated drivers, are you? I'm sure you meant this email as a joke, but before the drivers are deprecated it is good to get that confirmed. Regards, Hans > >> So move these drivers to staging for 3.19 and plan on removing them in >> 3.20. >> >> 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
