Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:29:08 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: status of the USB w9968cf.c driver in kernel 2.6?
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:46:03PM +0100, Luca Risolia wrote:
> Scrive Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>: 
>  
> > I noticed the following regarding the drivers/usb/media/ov511.c driver: 
>                                                           ^^^^^^^ 
> > - it's not updated compared to upstream: 
>  
> Could you provide more details? 

Sorry, my fault.
I confused this with a different driver.

> > - there's no w9968cf-vpp module in the kernel sources 
>  
> w9968cf-vpp is an optional, gpl'ed module, which can not be included in the 
> mainline kernel, as I explained in the documentation of the driver. 

  Please keep in mind that official kernels do not include the second 
  module for performance purposes.

What exactly does this mean?

Is it useful or not?

> Regards, 
>       Luca 

cu
Adrian

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