Hi folks,
I am planning to do some spring cleaning, and no longer "install"
outdated camera drivers by default. As all the drivers are loaded
during autoprobing, this will also gives a small startup speedup.
In general the rule I am looking for "over 10 years no functional changes"
which might reflect reality quite well.
I plan to still build the drivers by default to avoid direct bitrot,
just not install them anymore. (A configure option will be added to
allow installing all of them).
I did some evaluation with notes below, which would decrease
the number of default installed drivers from 65 to 15.
Note that some old drivers are named to current day cameras, but
these are usually all covered in the PTP driver these days.
If you know of some active camera users in the obsoleted list, please speak up
with the camera model in use.
Ciao, Marcus
Old to be obsoleted:
serial only:
adc65 - added in 2005, might have been outdated even then.
256x256 pixels
barbie - is from 2000
casio - last functional change 2005
dimera - last functional change in 2003
fuji - last functional change 2002
jd11 - is from 2001
kodak_dc120 - last bugreport from 2006
kodak_dc210 - last report from 2005
kodak_dc3200 - last functional change 2002
konica_qm150 - last functional change 2003 (not even googlable)
konica - from 2001
largan_lmini - last functional change 2004
minolta_dimage - last functional change 2007
panasonic_coolshot - last reports in 2002
panasonic_dc1000 - last reports in 2002
panasonic_dc1580 - last reports in 2002
panasonic_l859 - last reports in 2002
polaroid_pdc320 - old serial, last change in 2003
ricoh - from 2003
samsung - last changes in 2002
sonydscf1 - 1997 camera
sonydscf55 - 1999 camera, changes from 2002
aox - last functional change 2008
up to 640x480
agfa_cl20 - last functional change 2004
clicksmart310 - last functional change 2006
digita - last cameras released in 2001
enigma13 - last functional change in 2004
gsmart300 - last functional change 2004
hp215 - last functional changes 2005
iclick - last functional change 2004
jamcam - last functional change 2002
kodak_dc240 - last report from 2004
kodak_ez200 - last changes in 2007 by me
lg_gsm - last functional change 2005
mustek - last changes in 2002, ported from gphoto 0
pccam300 - last functional change 2004
pccam600 - last functional change 2004
polaroid_pdc640 - last report from 2005
polaroid_pdc700 - last work around 2004
ricoh_g3 - last reports from 2005
sipix_blink - was never working well i think
sipix_blink2 - last functional change 2003
sipix_web2 - last functional change 2002
smal - last functional change 2003
soundvision - last functional changes in 2003
spca50x - last additions in 2004
stv0674 - last functional changes from 2002
stv0680 - last functional changes from 2003
sx330z - last functional changes from 2003
toshiba_pdrm11 - last functional changes from 2003
Keep perhaps:
digigr8 - functional changes in 2012
jl2005a - last functional change 2010
jl2005c - last functional change 2012
mars - last functional change 2010
sonix - last functional changes in 2008
sq905 - last functional change 2010
topfield - last changes in 2008, (HD recorder, might still be in use)
tp6801 - last changes in 2011
Keep:
ax203 - last functional change 2014
canon - still has known users
directory - generic directory driver
pentax - pentax slr
ptp2 - PTP
sierra - still has users, also some cameras
st2205 - changes in 2014
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