From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@isi.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:40:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040829194055.GA435@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408291102010.2295@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:09:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > He is not sole author. Large parts of the code are based on other
> > authors work and simply copied from the standard framework. Please put
> > back the version without the hooks. It is useful to all sorts of people
> > in that form.
>
> Are you willing to stand up for that and be the maintainer for it?
Someone has contacted me and Nemosoft and is willing to be the
maintainer, so it looks like this will happen. That person is currently
working with Nemosoft to hash out a few issues and should soon be
sending a patch in to add the driver back, minus the hook.
At least that's what they say they will do :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-29 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 23:32 Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-26 23:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 9:48 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 17:37 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 18:55 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 19:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-27 22:49 ` Marek Habersack
2004-08-27 23:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-08-28 17:42 ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-27 23:04 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 21:59 ` non-i386 architectures (Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)) Daniel Egger
2004-08-27 19:06 ` Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-27 19:12 ` Alex Belits
2004-08-27 21:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 21:42 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 22:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-27 21:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-28 0:45 ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-28 0:53 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-28 10:29 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2004-08-29 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-28 9:26 ` chris
2004-08-29 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 14:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-29 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 19:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-08-30 9:35 ` Craig Milo Rogers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-27 10:14 Koos Vriezen
2004-08-27 11:03 ` Marcus Metzler
2004-08-28 2:16 lkml-mail
2004-08-28 5:30 ` Greg KH
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