On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >Justin Haygood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >>Any chance these can be included in OpenSUSE 10.2, at least as a KMP?
> >>They're fairly high quality, and support quite a bit of the webcams on
> >>the market today.
> >>
> >>http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
> >
> >Please talk to the maintainer to get it into the official Linus
> >kernel.  Once those are in, we will enable it the module,
> >
> >Andreas
> 
> There was a dispute with the maintainer who was using hooks into the 
> kernel, he threw a tantrum after pleading unsuccessfully to be treated 
> as a special case and asked for his code to be removed from the kernel, 
> it duly was. Alan Cox then stepped up to support an alternative that was 
> somewhat limited at first, subsequently the original maintainer 
> relented, but his code was never reinstated, so I doubt we'll see it in 
> any openSUSE products - it was/is encumbered by a NDA between the 
> maintainer and Philips.

Your are confusing spca5xx and the pwc moduels.

Ciao, Marcus
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