Re: gspca as part of the rawhide kernel?
2008/7/3 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl>:
Hi all,
As some of you know I've been working on improving webcam support under
Fedora, see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/
One of the things I've been working on is in beating gspcav2 (a v4l2 port of
gspca) into shape, although I must admit most of the work has been done by
Jean-François Moine, the latest version is available from his mercurial tree
and it has been pulled into the official v4l-dvb tree for wider testing.
Once it has been in the v4l-dvb tree it will make its way into the mainline
hopefuly for 2.6.27, if not then certainly fotr 2.6.28.
To check it out see:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/
Some time ago I've already done a review of the gspca_core and there are
some locking issues to solve (I already know how, I just need to code them
out).
Once this is done I would like to see gspcav2 be added to the Fedora kernel,
as to make the:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
Feature a reality (also needs userspace work, I'm on this).
So my questions are:
1) would it be acceptable to cary the gspca driver as a patch (only new
files
and makefile / kconfig changes doesn't touch anything else) until it is
merged upstream. Note that this is much needed for wider webcam support
and
that gspca is on its way to the mainline now, and I'll personally will be
working on ironing out any issues upstream may have with gspca as is.
2) Assuming the answer to 1 is yes, how do I move forward, can I get be
added
to the kernel package acl, what are the procedures for adding a patch and
building a new kernel, etc?
Personally I'd love to see this in rawhide. If you have a patch that
applies against the current rawhide kernel then scratch-building one
in koji isn't too much of a greater leap. Maybe DaveJ and the other
kernel bods would be happier if i's cleanly applying and won't need
much maintenance. Just note in the kernel.spec to append a buildid
(e.g. gspca) - more info here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel
Cheers
--
Christopher Brown
http://www.chruz.com