Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@xxxxxxx>]

Joseph M. Gaffney schrieb:
> A recent thread [1] on suseforums at  is ongoing and discussing the webcam 
> support in SUSE.
> 
> I replied to the thread with a link to the Novell Cool Solutions feature on 
> compiling kernel drivers by example [2] , which uses the pwc module [3] as an 
> example.  Is there any reason why webcam support is not included out of the 
> box yet?

IIRC, the "reverse-engineered" pwc driver was just decompiled, which is
illegal in many jurisdictions. That's also why it was removed from the
official kernel shortly after it had entered.
For details, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/2/94 and
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=88c1834633341bbb94e315433067496338bff4ad

I doubt the hi-resolution variant(*) of this driver is ever going to ship in a
SUSE product. It would be suicide to include it.

* The controversy was about the compression module. You can still use
the driver with low resolutions.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel