Re: RFC: Move the deprecated et61x251 and sn9c102 to staging

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

Hi,

On 01/10/2011 02:33 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 09-01-2011 10:02, Hans de Goede escreveu:

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>> 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.
>

Yes, although I wonder if anyone will notice. Fedora has had the sn9c102
driver disabled for 3 releases now and I've received (and fixed) a single
bug in all that time about a cam not supported by gspca_sonixb which
was supported by sn9c102

>> 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.

Well I've never seen these cams in the wild. sonixb cams with vga sensors
are quite rare because they cannot do more then 7.5-10 fps. So most cam
makers did the smart thing and went with a sonixj bridge for vga sensors.

Anyways I'll do a gspca patch for adding support for the missing 3 models
(as time permits). And then we can ship that (and make it the default
if both are compiled in) for 1 or 2 cycles before moving the sn9c102 driver
to staging. Assuming we don't receive any negative feedback in those
2 cycles (or manage to fix found bugs).

Regards,

Hans