I'd hope for keeping just one version in the kernel, otherwise the companies making distros are going to have a terrible time with it... There are a couple important things my driver does that John's doesn't, but there is one very important thing that John's driver did that mine doesn't: asynchronous frame grabs.
If John has the inclination, a patch to my 2.5.41 driver to do asynchronous streaming rather than synchronous streaming would be a great boon to whole community. Also I know John had some discussion with some of the others about race conditions and semaphores, it'd be great to have any of those still in existence were fixed. Everyone can share the credit and hopefully everyone - developer and user alike - will be happy. My opinion now is that the sourceforge project has performed its service flawlessly but should now be retired and all future work done as patches against the official versions in the kernel. As Greg said to me in an earlier email - there wouldn't have been any confusion if I had done my work against the version in the kernel to begin with. At 11:11 AM 10/14/2002 -0700, John Tyner wrote: >I don't know how much Joe knows about all of this, but here goes. :) > >I actually felt that I was taking away from the sourceforge guys buy >writing my driver. Like I said (to Greg) before, I actually had no >original intention of posting my driver as Joe and those working with him >actually did a lot of the legwork. > >I'm not actually trying to compete, I just want to get my camera working. >That said, I think that there are things in each driver that the other >doesn't do or doesn't do as well (in my opinion) and that people would best >be served by trying to merge both rather than having them compete. > >I'm more than willing to submit patches to reach this end. Perhaps that's >where I should have started, but as I also said before (to Greg) I wrote a >separate driver partly as a learning experience and partly to get my >camera working a little bit faster. > >John ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
