Re: USB maintainer, Greg Kroah ---->> PWC discussion

[Prisoner Of War <inmate@agf-team.net>]

Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>  
>
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 05:07:04PM +0200, Prisoner Of War wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Dear readers of this maillinglist,
> > >      
> > Hi "Prisoner Of War" [1],
> >
> >    
> >
> > > ...
> > > Now my dear daughter has her own laptop and she insists to run linux on 
> > > it. She just had her birthday and she got a nice logitec webcam so she 
> > > can use it on that very stable system.
> > >
> > > BUT NO!!
> > >
> > > These days she can't anymore. Why ?? Because there's a problem between 
> > > hrh Greg Kroah (usb maintainer) and somebody who did his best to give 
> > > user the possibility of using a goodworking webcam.
> > >
> > > I don't want the discussion if it's proper or not to have that driver in 
> > > the kernel. I have just the problem that i have todo more before it works...
> > >
> > > I realy don't give a sh*t about that. I just want one thing and that is 
> > > that the webcam starts working again and work like in ASAP. Rather 
> > > yesterday then today.
> > >      
> > if you'd have looked at the facts instead of writing this public flame 
> > you would have noticed, that the pwc driver was already in 2.6.12-rc 
> > yesterday, and that it was even there several days before yesterday.
> >
> >    
Yesterday it wasn't important for me. Coz i'm just a user.....

> Not to mention that it has also been available sepperately from the kernel 
> for a while at http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
>
>  
Yes i know / knew that. But that's the point.

>  
>
> > > So here's a user yrh Greg Kroah that realy wants that driver back in. 
> > > I'm a user and i'm not alone! There are more users like me and what we 
> > > want is that we have hardware which should work with the os we choose. 
> > > We choose linux because it's stable and it's not wintendo. Are you gonna 
> > > decide for us what we want ?? I hope not coz history tells us that those 
> > > kind of people never last long...
> > >      
> > It wasn't that Greg simply wanted to take the hardware support away from 
> > the users of Linux.
> >
> >    
It wasn't him.....think twice....

> > Greg also does his best to give the users of Linux a good working 
> > kernel. The details of how to achieve this might be discussible, but 
> > constructive contributions are usually more constructive than public 
> > flames.
> >
> >    
Oh i believe he does and I know he does. But the way i reacted is just 
like a user. From the users point of view.

> > > So what about it are you going to help me? And make it possible for us 
> > > to use our choosen hardware?
> > >      
> > Wait for 2.6.12.
> >
> > Or (if there is a pressing need for you) use 2.6.11-ac or 2.6.12-rc3.
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I realy hope you listen to me / us because I / we choose linux above 
> > > windows...
> > >      
> If you really want Greg to answer your questions then I'm wondering why 
> you didn't write this email to him or at least put him on CC:...
>  
I didn't write it to him because he's on this list and besides that 
there are websites who give you the possibility to read this list as i 
do that myself.

But the effect i wanted to reach is reached.


Regards,

Gabriel Kenter
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