Linux loses the Philips webcam driver [LWN.net]

Linux loses the Philips webcam driver

Posted Aug 29, 2004 4:42 UTC (Sun) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Linux loses the Philips webcam driver by richo123
Parent article: Linux loses the Philips webcam driver

After reading a little more about this, it appears that the driver did
follow the model at one time. But the maintainer found it too difficult
to keep up with changes so he changed the driver so that it was partially
open as an insulation layer against core kernel changes. NVidia does this
too, but the open part of their driver isn't shipped as part of the kernel
proper. I don't see an inconsistancy here. I still wonder about the
"respecting the author's wishes" part.

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