From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267449AbUH1KaB (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:30:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267445AbUH1KaA (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:30:00 -0400 Received: from [81.23.229.73] ([81.23.229.73]:6062 "EHLO mail.eduonline.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267415AbUH1K3c (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:29:32 -0400 From: Norbert van Nobelen Organization: EduSupport To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:29:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040826233244.GA1284@isi.edu> <1093628254.15313.14.camel@gonzales> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408281229.10617.Norbert@edusupport.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On the constructive site of this: Does anybody have a clue yet of how hard it will be to reverse engineer the protocol from Philips and get this back into the tree again? On Friday 27 August 2004 20:13, you wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > What if someone steps up and want to maintain and extend this piece of > > code ? Will you forbid him (as in "not in my tree") ? > > I'd suggest you contact the people who have worked on that driver (there's > certainly people outside of nemosoft, at least according to the > changelogs) and see what they feel like and try to gauge how much they > were part of driver development. > > I'd _really_ prefer not to step on original authors toes. > > Quite frankly, the best option is for people who love the driver to plead > with the author(s). It's totally pointless to flame him/them, that will > just irritate them and make them less likely to be inclined to say "sure, > go ahead and maintain the old driver". > > But Greg is right - we don't keep hooks that are there purely for binary > drivers. If somebody wants a binary driver, it had better be a whole > independent thing - and it won't be distributed with the kernel. > > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/