status of the USB ov511.c driver in kernel 2.6?

status of the USB ov511.c driver in kernel 2.6?

[Adrian Bunk]

I noticed the following regarding the drivers/usb/media/ov511.c driver:
- it's not updated compared to upstream:
  - version 1.64 is neither version 2 nor the latest 1.x version 1.65
- there's no *_decomp.c module in the kernel sources

Are there any reasons why the upstream driver can't be resynced with the 
kernel?

cu
Adrian

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Re: status of the USB ov511.c driver in kernel 2.6?

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:48:13 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> - there's no *_decomp.c module in the kernel sources

If I remember correctly people are bit uneasy about putting
decompression of proprietary codecs into to the kernel.

See
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04778.html

Every kernel release I end up building an external module just to get my
OV518 usb webcam to work. (It requires decompression support) Not cool.

> Are there any reasons why the upstream driver can't be resynced with the 
> kernel?

I think ovcamchip is from the development branch, but ov511 is from the
stable branch. Not sure about that. Best bet is contact Mark McClelland
(maintainer) here:

mmcclell <atsign> calpoly.edu 
or mark <atsign> alpha.dyndns.org

Richard Hughes

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Re: [linux-usb-devel] status of the USB ov511.c driver in kernel 2.6?

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:48:13PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I noticed the following regarding the drivers/usb/media/ov511.c driver:
> - it's not updated compared to upstream:
>   - version 1.64 is neither version 2 nor the latest 1.x version 1.65
> - there's no *_decomp.c module in the kernel sources
> 
> Are there any reasons why the upstream driver can't be resynced with the 
> kernel?

No one has sent me patches :(

greg k-h