Comments on: Linux Kernel Hackers remove the Philips USB Webcam support

By: Georg Bauer

Georg Bauer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The main problem is the boneheadedness of the modul maintainer. Sorry, but he explicitely states that he won't do his module as a kernel-external module. Even though that's standard for many stuff that supports special hardware on linux when you can't get full open source drivers. And his "so now I delete everything and the kitchen sink and you are all poor people because you can't use my cool module any more, bah bah bah" is just childish.

Hopefully someone with a bigger grasp of Open Source and how to do something delicate like supporting a part-binary kernel module will jump in and take what was in older kernels and maintains it just as a out-of-kernel distributed module.

By: Jkx

Jkx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The only trouble is that this only i know, who have sign a NDA w/ philipps on the compression algorihtm. So nobody else right now, can re-write this module..

By: Paul Boddie

Paul Boddie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It's a shame that the Web archive pages [1] only get you so far. Yes, it's a silly thing to "take the ball home", but it would be nice if the Linux kernel developers focused a bit more on API stability rather than messing other developers around like this.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20040202174433/http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

By: Jkx

Jkx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ok this take only 2 days to have another driver for this webcams.. Check out here for more infos (in french)

By: Jkx

Jkx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Read this thread carrefully ...

Philips is laying ?