Bug 232643

Summary:	Please add gspca driver to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	henrique.rodrigues, stefan-r-bz
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.video4linux/39126
Whiteboard:	linux-2.6.27
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2008-07-22 12:15:27 UTC

The gspca driver has been accepted into the 2.6.27 prerelease kernel. According to the author, "Linux will now support most webcams available at the market" after adding this patch.

Please consider for inclusion in the gentoo patchset.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-22 14:57:37 UTC

It is in .27 and with .27 it will be gentoo-sources.

Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2008-07-22 15:03:08 UTC

According to dsd new features in upstream development kernels can be considered for backporting to current release kernels.
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2007/07/new-hardware-support-in-the-gentoo-kernel/

Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-22 15:10:10 UTC

I see, kernel folks your bug. :)

Comment 4 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2008-07-24 16:11:05 UTC

From the link:

"This series includes 47416 line insersions[sic]!"

Wow, that's quite a big patch.

Comment 5 Stefan Richter 2008-07-26 16:10:26 UTC

Backports of all of v4l/dvb already exist and can be easily checked out from here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mkrufky/v4l-dvb-2.6.x.y.git

I somehow doubt that backporting the gspca driver alone is worth anyone's time.

Comment 6 Henrique Rodrigues 2008-10-13 00:39:32 UTC

Maybe this bug can be closed, now that gentoo-sources-2.6.27 is on the tree?

Comment 7 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2008-10-13 12:10:26 UTC

Yes, it is fixed by gentoo-sources-2.6.27