Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:21:36 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] cyber2000fb.c: misc cleanups |
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:10:51AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Where is this video capture code, and why can't it be included in the > kernel?
A version of it was in the Netwinder.Org CVS tree, but since the machine which used to provide that domain has been impounded by the provider (because of problems with a third party providing the hosting for it), that source vanished.
That leaves me as the sole provider of the source code, and the code has always been in the "experimental but useful" stage. The capture code is something which doesn't meet my standards for mainline kernel inclusion.
However, since the capture is part of the PCI VGA device, the VGA driver needs to export some hooks so that the capture driver can safely talk to the VGA chip. That is what these are for, and, since they have to be part of the VGA driver itself, I see no reason why I can't include them as part of the driver that _I_ maintain.
Of course, if it is preferred to put crap code into the kernel, then that I shall do. That's contary to what I believe should be merged, and I'm sure then Christoph will whinge about crap code being included. So I suspect I can't win either way.
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