Kernel Maintainer Kills Philips USB Camera Support

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."