Re: Can the patch adding support for the Tasco USB microscope be queued up?

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Hi Hans,

On Monday 16 February 2015 17:08:52 Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 02/16/2015 05:01 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> > My apologies, the other emails were sent to linux-uvc-devel, not
> > linux-media.
> > 
> > Do you want an attached patch file, or simply a diff in the body of the
> > email? I'm also not clear on what you mean by "correct Signed-off-by
> > line", I have very little experience with git, I've mostly used bzr.
> 
> This is a good link with the relevant information:
> 
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_How_to_submit_patches
> 
> Anyway, I checked where the original patch came from, and Laurent Pinchart
> wrote it. Since he's kernel maintainer he knows all about well-formatted
> patches and it's best if he just posts and merges his own patch :-)
> 
> Laurent, it's all yours!

I've sent the patch to linux-media and will include it in my next uvcvideo 
pull request.

Steven, could you please send me the output of

lsusb -v -d '1871:0516'

(if possible running as root) on your system ?

> > On 02/16/2015 10:40 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >> On 02/16/2015 04:31 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> >>> This is now the 3rd or 4th email to this list requesting that this patch
> >>> be merged in. If there is something wrong with the patch that needs
> >>> fixing, please let me know and I will work on the fix. Otherwise I've
> >>> lost interest in pushing to get it into upstream.
> >> 
> >> I can't remember ever seeing a patch for that posted to the linux-media
> >> mailinglist.
> >> 
> >> The best way is just to post the patch to this mailinglist, check that it
> >> appears in patchwork
> >> (https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/list/), make sure you
> >> keep the author and correct Signed-off-by line and it's *guaranteed*
> >> that someone will look at it, and merge it or reply to it if there are
> >> problems.
> >> 
> >> Mails like 'please pick up a patch from some other git repo' are very
> >> likely to be forgotten due to volume of other postings. Patchwork won't
> >> pick them up and that's what we all rely on.
> >> 
> >> So if either of you can just post this as a properly formatted patch,
> >> then it will be taken care of.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> 
> >> 	Hans
> >> 	
> >>> Michael Hall
> >>> mhall119@xxxxxxxxx
> >>> 
> >>> On 02/16/2015 10:08 AM, Steven Zakulec wrote:
> >>>> Hi, as an owner of a Tasco/Aveo USB microscope detected but not
> >>>> working under Linux, I'd really like to see the patch adding this
> >>>> variant added to the kernel.  I've copied the patch's author on the
> >>>> email. The people on the linux-uvc-devel list directed me over here.
> >>>> 
> >>>> The patch here:
> >>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/linux-uvc/mailman/message/32434617/ , itself
> >>>> an update of an earlier patch:
> >>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/linux-uvc/mailman/message/29835445/ works.
> >>>> The patch does make the USB microscope work where it didn't work at all
> >>>> before.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you!

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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