Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Philips camera support discontinued?

[PUYDT Julien <jpuydt free fr>]

Le jeu, 26/08/2004 à 22:14 +0100, Anne Wilson a écrit :
> I understand all that, Snark, but it seems to me that they are saying the hook 
> has to come out because nothing else uses it. 

As far as I understood, that's exactly their point.

>  Does that mean that there is  conclusive proof that everything else
>  in the kernel is used by more than one thing?

Well, type "lsmod | grep -v nvidia", and you'll see that the api to load
modules is really widely used, and is definitely not been done on
purpose for the nvidia driver.

>   It doesn't seem likely to me.  I have no problem with the fact that 
> the pwcx part can't be in the kernel.  My problem is with the kernel 
> maintainers saying that they will make it difficult or impossible for me to 
> have it at all.

If they begin allowing such things in the kernel, everyone will come
with a useless free driver that will just load a proprietary driver with
the real stuff, and ask for its inclusion!

Snark on #gnomemeeting