Ok, i reread you mails and see now that it is really other issue.
i try to summarize it:
1. It is regression, some old kernel works and new one not.
2. you get problems with jpeg stream
3. but skype do not use jpeg so it is brocken in raw stream
4. you can reproduce complete freeze only with
It's quite safe to say no one has ever made a camera like this
commercially. Even yuy2 is very rare, as the bandwidth requirements are
too high. I've made custom built hardware that captures PAL to yuy2 uvc
at 768 x 576 and that takes ~22MB/s on the USB bus, which only works on
quite stable