On 12/12/2014 03:29 PM, Ondrej Zary wrote: > 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. I'm pretty sure the QuickCam Pro won't work with the c-qcam driver, but I'll postpone moving these drivers to staging for the moment. 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
