On 11/10/07, Laurent Pinchart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ivan, Tom, Felix and all other iSight users. > > On Thursday 08 November 2007, Felix Möller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > >> But as we currently stand everything works so nicely as it is. Why > > >> should we have to spend precious time to port all of it to user > > >> land, read on how to write udev rules, bash scripts and what the > > >> best solution for distributions will be in terms of all of that. > > >> > > >> :-( > > > > > > I think usability is also an argument. For a user it is already > > > complex enough to install the driver without firmware, scripts etc. I > > > think it is better to have a solution, that "just works" and can be > > > handled by users easily in contrast to an very clean solutions noone > > > understands. > > > > yes I think so too. > > > > And I think firmware loading from the kernel is not that uncommon the > > new intel wlan driver iwlwifi loads its firmware too. > > EZ-USB firmware loading have traditionally been done in userspace. The fxload > utility has been designed for that purpose. I'm also not keen on adding a > dependency on SHA1 to the Linux UVC driver, especially if only one buggy > device requires it. >
I see. Kernel space fxload firmware loader sounds a bit off scope. Do you know off the top of your head a driver I can look into for their fxload based userspace hotplug(?) integration (scripts?)? I am willing to look into a fxload based setup as long as it's convenient for distributions. Regards. > Moving code from userspace to kernelspace doesn't really goes in the general > direction Linux is taking today. I'm however ready to consider kernelspace > EZ-USB firmware loading, but that should be made generic as other drivers > might then be interested. > > If you're ok with this approach, I think the issue should be raised on the > linux-usb-devel mailing list. People there are more aware of the USB firmware > loading issues than I am, and I'll trust their judgement regarding this > issue. > > Cheers, > > Laurent Pinchart > _______________________________________________ > Linux-uvc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel > -- Ivan N. Zlatev Web: http://www.i-nZ.net "It's all some kind of whacked out conspiracy." _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
