Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753922AbXLEQvp (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:51:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751502AbXLEQvi (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:51:38 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.188]:7720 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750964AbXLEQvh (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:51:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hPb4/mrZ32OLbtRy8k+qjj9EQAd6eNNVXMelmv8z1Ryqk1fDsiyUBrEBZ1hnXi5UhRKGikmsQ4+ytYxCmH6W0ncCaJBwQNASY38ZEpRzwJnrFnaQMNSpNUvjxRHOB3KiYdY0d0Sn3VSY8n2jdHpMXlwEHzn+Wzt/E/SH3Ac5k6c= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 08:51:36 -0800 From: "Brett Warden" To: "Alan Cox" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bw-qcam: Adds module parameter 'aggressive' to skip polite auto-detection prior to direct initialization. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071205004639.3a5cc948@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1178 Lines: 33 Sorry, forgot to copy back to the lists. On Dec 5, 2007 8:49 AM, Brett Warden wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 4:46 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Someone still has a bw-qcam device ? > > Yes. I haven't found a better option for very-low-light, although I > admit I haven't looked in a long while. The last one I tried was an > OV518+, but of course that driver seems to have been abandoned. > > > The status polling ought to be rock solid - what values do you see ? > > It has been as high as 94-96, but after being connected, powered, and > used for a while, it drops sometimes into the 40s, but has even been > as low as 8-14. When it's that low, it never comes back up until > either I disconnect/reconnect the power, or I force the driver to > initialize it through this hack. Even after trying that again just > now, it's ranging from 24-33. > > -- > Brett Warden > -- Brett Warden -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/