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Message-ID: <20070130224328.7f6a8850@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:43:28 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

>  > Like Jeff said, many of these are quite old.
> 
> OK, but why isn't your army of volunteers fixing them?

One of the problems if lack of hardware. It's very hard to fix a
prehistoric serial driver if you don't have an ISA bus box with the
needed slot let alone the card.

And why bother - its hardware that works on all the cases that matter

> Device Class", but nothing happens when I plug it into my Linux box.
> I assume the device class is specified as part of the USB spec...

UVC is "interesting", in a bad kind of interesting sort of way. See
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/linux-uvc however

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