Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-26T23:55:16Z

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:32:53PM -0700, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> As a third party, I issue a plea for mediation.
>
> Over on the linux-usb-devel mailing list, a spat has arisin
> between the Linux 2.6 USB maintainer, Greg K-H, and Nemosoft, the
> author of the driver (drivers/usb/media/pwc*) for certain
> Philips-based Web cameras. As a result, Nemosoft has asked that his
> driver be removed from the Linux 2.6 kernel.

It's not up to him to decide. He can step down from his maintainership,
but he can't force the driver to be removed.