Re: Self Introduction: Hans de Goede

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:44:15 +0100, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede-fbo2DhPpy/[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

I'm very happy someone found time to do this.

> Since I plan to write standalone v4l2 drivers for mainline inclusion for other 
> simple usb webcams I spend the last 2 days splitting the code of my pac207 
> driver into a generic usbvideo2 core (the kernel already has usbvideo, which 
> has a number of v4l1 drivers) and a camera specific pac207 driver which builds 
> on top of the usbvideo2 core.

Very interesting.

> I'm currently posting these as .c files for easy reading and compilation / 
> testing, but I still hope to get a lot of feedback / a thorough review, esp of 
> the core <-> pac207 split version as I hope to submit that as a patch for 
> mainline inclusion soon.

I see your patches in the mailbox and I'll have a look.

-- Pete