Sorry to resurrect this thread, but... > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Joe Burks wrote: > > 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
What are these things? Based on the last time I looked at the sourceforge website, I would have agreed; however, I've begun working on the driver and I'm finding that what got merged last week has alot (if not all) of those things stripped out. With those things missing, the only thing that the proc interface provides is variable shutter speed (since the gain/brightness can be set with an ioctl), and this seems like an awful lot of code bloat for not much payoff. It also, from what I can see, makes the two drivers the same except that mine provides the asynchronous urbs, handles disconnect correctly, doesn't have to reallocate memory for every control message, and doesn't crash when trying to reinsert after removal of the module (a problem I've been experiencing with Joe's driver). Which brings me to the point of the email (sorry it took so long to get here, heh). In trying to add the features from mine to the one that got merged, I'm finding that not only am I removing a lot of debug code and even some bugs, I'm also having to re-debug my own code in order to add it to the kernel. This, in my opinion, is a waste of my time since I've already submitted a working, debugged driver. I realize that this sounds like I'm upset that my driver got rejected or that I'm trying to "take my ball and go home". This is not the case at all. Rather, I've done all of this work once (and submitted as a completed, stable, working driver) and don't want to duplicate my own efforts. If someone else would like to take up the job of trying to merge the two drivers, I'm happy to give them my code. If not, then I ask that we revisit the idea of having both drivers coexist so that people can see/try the both of them. That is, unless a better idea is suggested. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
