From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266912AbUH0Sf2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:35:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267179AbUH0Sf2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:35:28 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:11143 "EHLO midnight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266912AbUH0SfV (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:35:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:35:24 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: David Woodhouse Cc: Xavier Bestel , Kenneth Lavrsen , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches Message-ID: <20040827183524.GA2427@ucw.cz> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040827171755.01c1f328@inet.uni2.dk> <1093628062.15313.11.camel@gonzales> <1093630163.5695.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1093630163.5695.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:09:23PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 19:34 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > My name is Kenneth Lavrsen. I maintain the open source project Motion. > > > Probably half of the users of Motion - and there are 1000s of them will > > > soon realise that next time they download a Kernel their camera will no > > > longer work. > > > Bitching won't get you very far, obviously. > > Well, it might. If there are really thousands of people out there who > will be purchasing non-Philips webcams from now on, it may be worth > making sure Philips are aware of that. It doesn't seem to be Philips's fault at the moment, I've read somewhere (probably a list archive linked from slashdot) that Nemosoft's NDA has ended a year ago and that he was now free to release the source to the binary only part ... that'd of course fix the whole problem. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR