From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
Kenneth Lavrsen <kenneth@lavrsen.dk>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:35:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827183524.GA2427@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093630163.5695.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:09:23PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 19:34 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > My name is Kenneth Lavrsen. I maintain the open source project Motion.
> > > Probably half of the users of Motion - and there are 1000s of them will
> > > soon realise that next time they download a Kernel their camera will no
> > > longer work.
>
> > Bitching won't get you very far, obviously.
>
> Well, it might. If there are really thousands of people out there who
> will be purchasing non-Philips webcams from now on, it may be worth
> making sure Philips are aware of that.
It doesn't seem to be Philips's fault at the moment, I've read somewhere
(probably a list archive linked from slashdot) that Nemosoft's NDA has
ended a year ago and that he was now free to release the source to the
binary only part ... that'd of course fix the whole problem.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 16:26 kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-27 16:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 17:01 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 17:34 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:09 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 18:35 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-08-27 20:47 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 21:18 ` Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-28 16:22 ` Brian Beattie
2004-08-27 18:08 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-29 13:25 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-28 3:50 Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-27 16:46 David McBride
2004-08-27 14:07 Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-27 20:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 3:03 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 6:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-28 14:46 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 17:13 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-29 13:28 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 15:00 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-26 14:31 city_hunter
2004-08-26 18:25 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <20040826190701.GA13310@kroah.com>
2004-08-26 23:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-26 23:40 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 0:21 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270917.47656.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:47 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 12:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 13:30 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-27 13:13 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-27 13:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 23:18 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-28 0:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-28 0:19 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-28 0:50 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 16:46 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 13:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 12:56 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <buok6vldx4l.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2004-08-27 12:38 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270845.38015.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:41 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-27 13:58 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] <1092793392.17286.75.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <1092845135.8044.22.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <20040823221028.GB4694@kroah.com>
2004-08-24 22:58 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-24 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 14:02 ` Simon Oosthoek
2004-08-26 0:55 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 1:27 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 9:00 ` syrius.ml
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