linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.27 gspca driver fails with Trust WB-1400T

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Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:21:31 +0200
From:	"Patrizio Bassi" <patrizio.bassi@...il.com>
To:	"Simon Holm Thøgersen" <odie@...aau.dk>
Cc:	"Kernel," <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27 gspca driver fails with Trust WB-1400T

2008/10/13 Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@...aau.dk>
>
> man, 13 10 2008 kl. 22:19 +0200, skrev Patrizio Bassi:
> > Hi
> >
> > i have a Trust 1400T perfectly working on 2.6.26 using external module
> > (media-video/gspcav1-20071224 is the gentoo version so it's that day
> > snapshot.)
> >
> > Upgrading to 2.6.27 kernel, using integrated kernel driver
> >
> Does the following text explain it (imagine the text being at the front
> page of [2])?
>
> "Historically, there has been a number of different projects ([1], ...),
> providing v4l drivers outside of the mainline Linux kernel. If you are
> migrating from drivers by such projects, you might need to know a few
> things. The drivers provided by this project do not do various color
> conversion routines in the kernel, but in a userspace library that we
> also provide [3].
>
> This means that programs that use v4l and v4l2 must either be
>  - able to do the necessary color conversion themselves,
>  - link against our userspace library that provides these
>   conversions, or
>  - be loaded using an appropriately set LD_PRELOAD environment
>   variable."
>
> [1] http://mxhaard.free.fr/
> [2] http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Main_Page
> [3] http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/v4l-dvb
>
>
> Simon Holm Thøgersen
>

ok, it sounds i need to read some wikis...i'll come back to you when
i'm done with the result

--
Patrizio Bassi
www.patriziobassi.it