netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:00:25 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:09:42 +0100, Adrian Bunk said:

> Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream?

Well, on my laptop, I'm currently dragging along 3 out-of-tree kernel modules.
2 are well-known binary blobs so it's between me and the vendor, as usual.

The third is a USB webcam driver that happened to get caught at the wrong
end of the colorspace-conversion-in-kernel bunfight in the V4L playpen.
Somebody wants to figure out how to get the gspca drivers into the kernel,
they're at http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html waiting for attention. ;)

(Don't look at *me*, I don't understand the code, or the bunfight - I just
happen to have one of the 244 supported webcams, and it works with that driver)

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