Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[j debert <jdebert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/12/2011 03:34 PM, Insomniac wrote:
>   Philips webcams used to work fantastically in SuSE, all the way up to 10.3 
> IIRR. For some odd reason the kernel people or the suse people or whomever it 
> was, decided to remove the part that made them work. You know, the 'fix what 
> ain't broke' people.

The original pwc module maintainer eventually quit out of frustration
with the kernel maintainers. This was covered on Slashdot at the time
and the "discussion" was furious. It very much seemed as if the
maintainer was being singled out by the kernel people and
intentionally and specifically blocked from including his modules. The
module's maintenance was taken up by another developer who stopped
maintaining it not long after.

The original kernel module was in two parts, one of which was a
proprietary binary which provided the larger format compression
routines. The maintainer could not provide source until the NDA with
Phillips expired, which occurred about a year after he quit. It's
unfortunate the original maintainer quit: The original modules worked
the best. They worked well up to OpenSuSE 10.3 but sometime before
end-of-life, something changed enough to break the modules. Since
then, nothing for these webcams has worked well, if at all.

jd
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