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
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