On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> wrote: > The V4L1 drivers that lasts are the ones without maintainers and probably > without > a large users base. So, basically legacy hardware. So, their removals make > sense. >
In many ways the above statement is a catch 22. Most, if not all the v4l1 drivers are currently broken or unmaintained. However, this does not mean there are users who would not be using these drivers if they actually worked or had been properly maintained. I know this to be a fact of the ibmcam driver. It is both broken and unmaintained. Because of this I'm sure no one is currently using it. I happen to have a USB camera which is supposedly supported by the ibmcam driver. Unfortunately, I have not the time nor expertise needed to update/fix/replace this driver, though I have previously tried. If someone on this list is willing to collaborate with me to make a functional v4l2 driver to replace the existing ibmcam driver, I'd be more than willing to expend more time and energy in doing so. Hopefully someday I'll actually be able to use the camera that I own, considering as is it barely works under Windows. Regards, David Ellingsworth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
