uvcvideo (webcam) support for COMPAL JHL90 based laptops

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Amit,

On Thursday 13 November 2008, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> Joerg,
>
> I recall that you were going to push this patch upstream. Could you
> please test the latest uvcvideo driver with the Compal HW and let us
> know if this patch is still required? If so, I'll push it upstream for
> you.
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Laurent Pinchart
>
> <laurent.pinchart at skynet.be> wrote:
> > Hi Amit,
> >
> > I've noticed by sheer luck that the Ubuntu 8.10 linux-image-2.6.27-7
> > packages include a patch to the uvcvideo driver to support webcam modules
> > integrated into Compal JHL90 laptops.
> >
> > Is there a reason why the patch hasn't been pushed upstream ? Being the
> > uvcvideo author and maintainer, I'd appreciate if you could forward
> > patches related to the driver in the future.
>
> Laurent: The patch would have gone out in a week or so when our git
> tree is cleaned and rebased for the next release. We try to ensure
> that the patch authors are making some efforts to upstream it, but
> there is no way to ensure it until we go through our accumulated patch
> list at the end of a release cycle.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm not familiar with the Ubuntu release cycles 
and procedures for pushing patches upstream, so I wanted to make sure the 
driver shipped with Ubuntu wouldn't diverge. Feel free to CC me if you 
discuss uvcvideo-related patches on the mailing list in the future.

> > On a pure technical note, the patch might not be required with the
> > current uvcvideo driver version. There is no way to confirm this without
> > testing the driver with that particular webcam model, so I'd appreciate
> > if you could contact the patch author and check with him if his camera
> > works with the latest uvcvideo driver (available from
> > http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/).

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart