On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 11:22 schrieb Tuukka Toivonen:
Besides, format conversions _are not allowed_ in the kernel. They belong
into userspace.
Well, there's no need to be dogmatic about it. In a basic sense any driver
is performing a format conversi
Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 11:22 schrieb Tuukka Toivonen:
> Besides, format conversions _are not allowed_ in the kernel. They belong
> into userspace.
Well, there's no need to be dogmatic about it. In a basic sense any driver
is performing a format conversion.
> Nemosoft: you should not have
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
I have one of those philips cams (bought it because I saw pwc in the kernel
source), but I found out that without pwcx is was next to useless. I haven't
Could you elaborate why it is next to useless? I think 95% of Linux
web camera drivers don't support a
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:58:59AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 01:04, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:58:24AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> > If you want to send me a patch to tell me to rip the whole driver out,
> > fine I will, no problems,
Hello,
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 01:04, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:58:24AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> If you want to send me a patch to tell me to rip the whole driver out,
> fine I will, no problems, I completly understand.
I don't think you do.
> But realize that anyone c
Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 05:04 schrieb Phil Dibowitz:
> Hmmm, I saw that comment by Linus, and I am obviously by no means as
> emersed in kernel development as ... well, either of you ... but I took
> Linus' comment to mean more that the kernel will not be changed to work
> around odd behavi
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:35:16AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> Bummer. This is rubbish. And I am sure that this is not the intention of
> Linus comments. IF the module would be NON functional without the closed
> plugin, then yes, rip it out. But it is useable, and this hook *can* be
> used
On Die, 24 Aug 2004, Greg KH wrote:
> > * you are going to accept that there is a driver in the Linux kernel that
> > has a hook that _may_ be used to load a binary-only decompressor part into
> > the kernel, at the user's disgression. Maybe, one day, that part will be
> > open source too but I
Greg wrote:
Actually, in thinking about this even more, I just realized that I have
to rip this hook out. I say this because we are allowing a change to
the kernel that is needed _only_ for a closed source module. See
Linus's comments about "if a change is needed to be made to the kernel
in order
