Status of driver ov511 based cameras

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:58:41PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> > Question if I fix it again what are the chances it ends in Fedora?   How
> > are orphaned drivers handled in the kernel?  Someone, who doesn't seem
> > to be the original author, has been ensuring the 1.x continues compiling
> > in 2.6.27 despite the changes in interface.
> 
> No, only if it ends up in upstream kernel will it be in Fedora.
> 
> You might try submitting the driver and fixes to Greg K-H's "Linux 
> Staging" tree:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/329

See also LinuxDriverProject:

http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers?sortcol=table;up=#Web_Cams

http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page