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
>
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