a peine parti et bientôt de retour

We have heard in several comments to the effect:

pwc us useless without pwcx

While we don't want/intend to take sides in the pwcx/kernel dispute,
we want to make it clear that these claims are simply not true.
The pwc driver is very useful without pwcx.

The LavaRnd project uses webcams with lens caps an entropy sources
for generating random numbers (see http://www.lavarnd.org(...)). One of
our reference webcams is the Logitech QuickCam 3000 Pro - pwc730 webcam
(see http://www.lavarnd.org/developer/pwc730.html(...)).
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:16:18PM -0700, lkml-mail@asthe.com wrote:

>>
>> We would be happy to discuss ways that the pwc might be maintained
>> in the linux kernel. If we can help, please ask us (see
>> http://www.lavarnd.org/about-us/contact-us.html(...) for our EMail address).


Great. Here's what you can do. Take the patch availble at:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@412d8e0cqutBsdGubqorXXC(...)
and apply it reversed to your kernel tree (with -R as an option to
patch). That patch has the binary hook already removed.

Then clean up the text a bit to point to you as the maintainer, that no
one should bother the original author anymore, and such. Cleanup and
change anything else that you think needs to be done to the driver, and
then send me that patch as documented in the
Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the kernel tree.

Then you would be the new maintainer of the driver, and the code would
be back in the kernel tree.

Sound good?

thanks,

greg k-h