Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:30:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: USB maintainer, Greg Kroah ---->> PWC discussion |
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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. > Not to mention that it has also been available sepperately from the kernel for a while at http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
> > 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. > > 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. > > > 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:...
-- Jesper Juhl
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