Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conver

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Sun, May 27, 2001, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At the risk of being off-topic, why didnīt anybody do anything about it
> > then? Are they deaf, donīt listen to you, or are they simply complacent?
> 
> The non USB people listened. The USB stuff tended to go via a different
> maintainer hwo wanst enforcing it.

Actually, it's all because of legacy.

I wrote the first driver that did this, simply because I couldn't find
any clients which handled v4l correctly.

I sent the patch as beta, experimental, etc but Linus took it and merged
it anyway even tho I didn't send it to him. Not necessarily a problem in
itself.

Then people came by and created drivers for their devices and used my
original code as a base. They did the same thing and provided a RGB
interface when YUV was the native.

There isn't any conspiracy, just bad precedent.

I completely agree that YUV to RGB is bad and I shouldn't have done it
in my original driver and I shouldn't have allowed it now. It WILL be
removed from all of the other v4l USB drivers at some point.

JE


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