Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:09:47 +0200 | From | Prisoner Of War <> | Subject | Re: USB maintainer, Greg Kroah ---->> PWC discussion |
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Jesper Juhl wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >>On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 05:07:04PM +0200, Prisoner Of War wrote: >> >> >> >>>Dear readers of this maillinglist, >>> >>> >>Hi "Prisoner Of War" [1], >> >> >> >>>... >>>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. >>> >>>BUT NO!! >>> >>>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. >>> >>>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... >>> >>>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. >>> >>> >>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. >> >> >> 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/ > > > Yes i know / knew that. But that's the point.
> > >>>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... >>> >>> >>It wasn't that Greg simply wanted to take the hardware support away from >>the users of Linux. >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> 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? >>> >>> >>Wait for 2.6.12. >> >>Or (if there is a pressing need for you) use 2.6.11-ac or 2.6.12-rc3. >> >> >> >>>I realy hope you listen to me / us because I / we choose linux above >>>windows... >>> >>> >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:... > > 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,
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