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Kernel Maintainer Kills Philips USB Camera Support

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the calling-it-quits dept.

outanowhere writes "The author of the Philips webcams kernel module has thrown in the towel and quit providing the pwc and pwcx kernel modules which make using Philips-based USB cameras such as those from Logitech and Philips possible with Linux. According to the author, the last straw was when a kernel maintainer changed his pwc module to make using the binary-only pwcx compression module impossible. It is a victory for obsessive kernel-purists but a major loss for all Linux users."

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  1. No more Philips USB Camera Support for lnx? by u-238 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, that's about enough for me. I've had a good run. Someone tell my parents I'll miss them, and that they can get a replacement for the rat poison missing with the money in my wallet.

  2. Re:"but a major loss for all Linux users." by psavo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you are missing the point. Not every user cares what is in their kernel, much the same was as Windows users don't. They just want stuff to work.

    And you're missing the 'provider' point. If Linux kernel maintainer isn't willing to provide binary module hooks into kernel, then it's his right to refuse having them.

    This module could walk around this rule by having same system as nVidia kernel driver, but no, they come to slashdot, bitch and moan.

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    fucktard is a tenderhearted description
  3. Re:By the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You should take your own advice. You had a target audience of one, and insulted him in the first sentence.

  4. This is the best line by phunhippy · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what can you do about it? Not much, unless the kernel maintainers ease up a little, and stop being such fundamentalistic turds.

    I spittled my cereal all over my desk!! thanks a lot!