Re: RFC: Remove gspca and old ISA radio drivers

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Hans,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 05:37:03PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Would there be any objection to removing the gspca driver for all those old
> webcams with horrible quality and that nobody should be using anyway, and
> for the old ISA radio drivers where I am pretty sure I'm the only one that
> can actually test them (and even that is questionable).
> 
> I could move them to staging/deprecated for a kernel cycle, but to be honest
> I think we should just kick them out.

No objection from me. gspca doesn't bother me though, as it's quite
self-contained. I would be happier to see the em28xx driver go when it
will be time, as it's one of the few users of some legacy subdev APIs I
would like to drop. As far as I understand, that driver is however more
widely used.

> It also allows me to throw away a lot of old hardware and make some room for
> new hardware :-)

I wonder if some computer science museums would have an interest in
those. I suppose they're not the most interesting devices.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart