Hi Alan,
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Alan Nisota wrote:
I have been informed by the manufacturer that the patch currently in the v4l
tree to support the Genpix-CW3K version of the hardware will actually damage
the firmware on recent units. As he seems to not want this hardware
supported in Linux,
Hi Alan,
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:01:25 -0700
Alan Nisota alannis...@gmail.com wrote:
Patrick Boettcher wrote:
Hi Alan,
Don't you think it is enough to put a Kconfig option to activate the
USB-IDs (by default: off) rather than throwing everything away?
We could, but honestly, there
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
We shouldn't drop support for a device just because the manufacturer doesn't
want it to be supported. If it really damages the hardware or violates the
warranty, then we can print a warning message clearly stating that the vendor
refuses to collaborate, briefly
Hi Alan,
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Alan Nisota wrote:
I have been informed by the manufacturer that the patch currently in the v4l
tree to support the Genpix-CW3K version of the hardware will actually damage
the firmware on recent units. As he seems to not want this hardware
supported in Linux,
Patrick Boettcher wrote:
Hi Alan,
Don't you think it is enough to put a Kconfig option to activate the
USB-IDs (by default: off) rather than throwing everything away?
We could, but honestly, there are likely few people using this device
who don't have to patch their kernel anyway, and it is
I have been informed by the manufacturer that the patch currently in the
v4l tree to support the Genpix-CW3K version of the hardware will
actually damage the firmware on recent units. As he seems to not want
this hardware supported in Linux, and I do not know how to detect the
difference
