Status of driver ov511 based cameras
Chuck Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Nov 28 19:58:41 UTC 2008
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> Question if I fix it again what are the chances it ends in Fedora? How
> are orphaned drivers handled in the kernel? Someone, who doesn't seem
> to be the original author, has been ensuring the 1.x continues compiling
> in 2.6.27 despite the changes in interface.
No, only if it ends up in upstream kernel will it be in Fedora.
You might try submitting the driver and fixes to Greg K-H's "Linux
Staging" tree:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/329
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