dx2xx.c ?

dx2xx.c ?

[john slee]

did this become "obsolete" in lunix 2.5?  yes, while gphoto2 is a better
solution (less crap in kernel) it would be nice to have something that
actually works and doesn't require a huge app to do stuff.  opendis is
also able to delete files from the camera, while gphoto2 can't...

what would i have to do to reinstate this driver in 2.5/2.6, bearing in
mind that i'm primarily a perlite that understands C, rather
than the other way around...

j.

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Re: dx2xx.c ?

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:36:49PM +1100, john slee wrote:
> did this become "obsolete" in lunix 2.5?  yes, while gphoto2 is a better
> solution (less crap in kernel) it would be nice to have something that
> actually works and doesn't require a huge app to do stuff.  opendis is
> also able to delete files from the camera, while gphoto2 can't...
> 
> what would i have to do to reinstate this driver in 2.5/2.6, bearing in
> mind that i'm primarily a perlite that understands C, rather
> than the other way around...

There are a number of different user programs that obsolete the dx2xx.c
driver.  You have pointed out that gphoto2 works nicely :)

Because of this the driver will not go back into the tree.  If you want
more information, please see the linux-usb-devel list archives.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: dx2xx.c ?

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:56:28PM +1100, john slee wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:51:50AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > There are a number of different user programs that obsolete the dx2xx.c
> > driver.  You have pointed out that gphoto2 works nicely :)
> 
> a number of?  what is there besides gphoto2? (which doesn't work nicely
> by the way, deletion of files is a pretty basic requirement)

There is a Java application somewhere that works quite well (or so I've
been told, I don't have a device to try it out with.)  Ah, here it is:
	http://jphoto.sourceforge.net/

Try asking the author of that program about it, as he is also the author
of the dx2xx.c driver and asked it to be removed from the kernel :)

Good luck,

greg k-h