Re: Self Introduction: Hans de Goede

Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.kernel,gmane.comp.video.video4linux,gmane.linux.drivers.spca50x.devel
Organization Red Hat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/28/2008 05:44 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a Linux enthusiast / developer. Lately I'm mainly active doing
> development for Fedora and writing kernel drivers (and as my day job I'm
> a lecturer in Computer Science).
> 
> Fedora has a policy of not shipping a heavily patched kernel, but
> instead tries to work with upstream to get any needed patches
> integrated. This policy extends to not shipping any addon drivers, but
> rather working to get drivers integrated upstream.
> 
> As such I've decided to start spending my spare time on getting more and
> better usb webcam support integrated upstream (for non usb video class
> devices). I wanted to have something to show, so I've gone to the store,
> bought a couple of webcams and started hacking and learning.
> 

There is a partially completed driver for an Acer webcam here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/

And I have the hardware...
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