Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 08:06:59 EST


On Friday 27 August 2004 15:47, Wouter Van Hemel wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > Code is under GPL. You can add it back anyday. It's less work than
> > writing such a long email.
>
> I just happen to be better at writing rants than writing drivers. :)

You don't need to write anything. Just put *existing* driver back.
It's doable even if you never ever wrote 'hello world' C program.

> If the maintainer wants it pulled, I feel it would be stealing to add it
> back into the kernel without his approval. Perhaps we could rewrite the
> driver and merge it with some other webcam driver projects.

This is the problem. It is far easier to _feel_ something
than to _do_ something.
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vda
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