Re: GPL code for Omnivision USB video camera available.

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

On 06/15/2009 03:01 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:12:10 +1000
> Hans de Goede<hdegoede@redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> Getting ovfx2 support into the mainline kernel sounds like a good idea!
>>
>> I'm not such a big fan of merging the driver as is though, as it does
>> its own buffer management (and ioctl handling, usb interrupt handling,
>> locking, etc).
>
> I understand completely.
>

Good!

>> For adding the ovfx2 driver, you could start by copying ov519.c, which
>> already has setup and control code fro most ov sensors and then rewrite
>> the bridge part to be ovfx2 code, then later we can try to move the
>> sensor code to a shared c file for the ov519 and ovfx2 driver, depending
>> on how much you needed to change the sensor code. Or you could add
>> support for the ovfx2 to the ov519 driver.
>>
>> Note I've recently being doing quite a bit of work on the ov519 driver,
>> adding support for the ov511 and ov518 and adding more controls. I'll
>> make a mercurial tree available with my latest code in it asap.
>
> Ok, there's the rub. I am simply way too busy at the moment to push this
> through myself.
>
> I was hoping I could contract someone to take the existing code and
> massage it into shape ready for merging. I would prefer it if that
> someone was already a V4L hacker, but if I can't find anyone with
> pre-existing V4L experience I'll find someone local with general
> Linux kernel/driver experience.
>

Well I can't offer you contracting, as I simply do not have the spare time
to make such promises, but as any good hacker: "will work for hardware"
on a I'll do my best but no promises made basis.

I'm actually spending quite a bit of time lately on v4l stuff again,
and I'm sure willing to spend some time on this. I can even promise you
I'll bump it to the top of the list of my v4l projects.

For a general idea how deep I'm involved in v4l webcam support see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport

Regards,

Hans