On Wednesday 10 December 2014, Hans Verkuil wrote: > 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. (Sorry for the delay, I somehow missed this e-mail.) I'll try to fix c-qcam driver (I suppose that it should work with QuickCam Pro). The webcams are still on the way so I don't know what's inside the unknown one. -- Ondrej Zary -- 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
