Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

Not true. The ov511 driver works pretty well, with my Orange Micro iBot2

(USB2.0) webcam, I can do 30fps at 640x480 truecolor uncompressed ...


I just tried to by the Orange Micro iBot2. Its discontinued. And what about the large install base of Phillips webcams?

Oh yeah, and I'm supposed to rush out and buy new hardware every time a Linux developer decides he now doesn't like a previously supported product? What happened to choice and freedom?



Well, the freedom is with the author of the software this time.


No, the decision has been made to eliminate his functionality from the kernel. Its unreasonable to for the developer to relegate his code to 2nd class status when it is used by so many people.

Btw, you don't have to delete the driver from your harddrive. It'll keep
working.

For now. Till we upgrade our kernels or patch our security holes. What kind of logic is that?


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