Re: USB maintainer, Greg Kroah ---->> PWC discussion

[Prisoner Of War <inmate@agf-team.net>]

Jesper Juhl wrote:

>On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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>>On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 05:07:04PM +0200, Prisoner Of War wrote:
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>>>Dear readers of this maillinglist,
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>>Hi "Prisoner Of War" [1],
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>>>...
>>>Now my dear daughter has her own laptop and she insists to run linux on 
>>>it. She just had her birthday and she got a nice logitec webcam so she 
>>>can use it on that very stable system.
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>>>BUT NO!!
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>>>These days she can't anymore. Why ?? Because there's a problem between 
>>>hrh Greg Kroah (usb maintainer) and somebody who did his best to give 
>>>user the possibility of using a goodworking webcam.
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>>>I don't want the discussion if it's proper or not to have that driver in 
>>>the kernel. I have just the problem that i have todo more before it works...
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>>>I realy don't give a sh*t about that. I just want one thing and that is 
>>>that the webcam starts working again and work like in ASAP. Rather 
>>>yesterday then today.
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>>if you'd have looked at the facts instead of writing this public flame 
>>you would have noticed, that the pwc driver was already in 2.6.12-rc 
>>yesterday, and that it was even there several days before yesterday.
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Yesterday it wasn't important for me. Coz i'm just a user.....

>Not to mention that it has also been available sepperately from the kernel 
>for a while at http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
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Yes i know / knew that. But that's the point.

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>>>So here's a user yrh Greg Kroah that realy wants that driver back in. 
>>>I'm a user and i'm not alone! There are more users like me and what we 
>>>want is that we have hardware which should work with the os we choose. 
>>>We choose linux because it's stable and it's not wintendo. Are you gonna 
>>>decide for us what we want ?? I hope not coz history tells us that those 
>>>kind of people never last long...
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>>It wasn't that Greg simply wanted to take the hardware support away from 
>>the users of Linux.
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It wasn't him.....think twice....

>>Greg also does his best to give the users of Linux a good working 
>>kernel. The details of how to achieve this might be discussible, but 
>>constructive contributions are usually more constructive than public 
>>flames.
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Oh i believe he does and I know he does. But the way i reacted is just 
like a user. From the users point of view.

>>>So what about it are you going to help me? And make it possible for us 
>>>to use our choosen hardware?
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>>Wait for 2.6.12.
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>>Or (if there is a pressing need for you) use 2.6.11-ac or 2.6.12-rc3.
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>>>I realy hope you listen to me / us because I / we choose linux above 
>>>windows...
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>If you really want Greg to answer your questions then I'm wondering why 
>you didn't write this email to him or at least put him on CC:...
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I didn't write it to him because he's on this list and besides that 
there are websites who give you the possibility to read this list as i 
do that myself.

But the effect i wanted to reach is reached.


Regards,

Gabriel Kenter
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