Hi Dâniel, On Sunday 13 April 2008, Dâniel Fraga wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/276973/ > > An interesting excerpt: > > "As for video input devices, there is an active Linux developer > community in this area, but they seem to be hampered by a different > development model (Mecurial trees outside of the main kernel source), > and a lack of full-time developers, not to mention a high degree of > inter-personal conflicts that seem quite strange to outsiders. Support > for a large majority of these devices is slowly trickling into the main > kernel tree, the most important being the USB Video class driver, which > will support almost all new USB video devices in the future, thereby > removing the major problem most users will face when purchasing a new > video device". > > ***
Thanks for the link. > I agree. With the future inclusion of USB Video class driver, > V4L will get a boost by supporting many yet not officialy supported > devices (lots of webcams for instance). Of course they bring new > challenges, but it will be a good thing, I think. I wouldn't be working on the driver if there were no challenges :-) > Thanks everybody for the great work. You're welcome. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
