From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15713 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752599Ab1AJBdS (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:33:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4D2A61D9.1090807@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:33:13 -0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans de Goede CC: Hans Verkuil , Linux Media Mailing List , Jean-Francois Moine Subject: Re: RFC: Move the deprecated et61x251 and sn9c102 to staging References: <201101012053.00372.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <4D20A908.9020705@redhat.com> <4D20C4FB.9060906@redhat.com> <201101022113.01133.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <4D29A3D6.6060307@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4D29A3D6.6060307@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Sender: Em 09-01-2011 10:02, Hans de Goede escreveu: > Hi, > > On 01/02/2011 09:13 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >> On Sunday, January 02, 2011 19:33:31 Hans de Goede wrote: > > > >>> So only 3 raw bayer + custom compression models supported by >>> sn9c102 are not supported by gspca_sonixb, and all jpeg models >>> are supported by gspca_sonixj. Porting the 3 remaining models >>> over should be relatively easy, but I (I more or less maintain >>> the sonixb driver) really need hardware access to ensure things >>> stay working. >>> >>> Second correction, I was looking at an old tree and failed to >>> notice that the zc0301 driver has already bitten the dust >>> (good!). >> >> Thank you for your very helpful answer. >> >> Can you make a patch removing all the bogus usb IDs from these drivers? > > I've managed to make some time to also sort out the sn9c1xx usb ids > situation. I've just send a pull request which includes patches cleaning > things up. After this there are only 5 usb-ids left which will default to > sn9c102 when both are compiled in, and only 3 of those are not supported > by gspca. Good! > > So if we move the sn9c102 driver to staging we will loose support for > only 3 usb-ids. IOW I think it is time to move it to staging :) This would be a regression. > Note I can write a patch to add untested support for these 3 to the > sonixb driver, given my experience with adding support for the hv7131d > based on the sn9c102 code, that should be doable. But it will be > completely untested :( I think that the better would be to add support for it at gspca, but wait for some feedback before considering it working. Cheers, Mauro