Re: [Spca50x-devs] Spca5xx driver need to change for July :)

[Joel Crisp <jcrisp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I like your suggestion for the name. It's the trend now in world politics to invent the acronym first then fit the name to it ;-)

I was thinking more about the other projects to support webcams. I like the idea of being able to add/remove chipsets, I just think 
we should look at any other drivers which are available for webcams under linux and start to converge. This is particularly true if 
you are developing a common interface for disparate chipsets, the more webcam support projects which are involved in that the better 
chance of it becoming a complete and common solution.

Cydergoth

michel Xhaard wrote:
> Le Samedi 22 Avril 2006 17:35, Joel Crisp a écrit :
> > Obviously, I would like to keep the SPCA name as that was the original
> > camera chip series I wrote the driver for ;-), but that would really
> > deprecate some of Michel's excellent work supporting the other models of
> > camera.
> I have some attachement to the SPCA story to :) and should preffer to keep the 
> name nearest, something like :
>  Universal Software Peripherical Camera Adaptator :) of course we can add V2
> USPCA-V2 :)
> > How many other webcam driver packages out there? Should we be considering a
> > merge into or from the other drivers? As this package supports more and
> > different chipsets, it makes less sense to have separate packages for other
> > types of camera.
> Don't know the future, but the next branch is set in a way that each chipset 
> have a single interface to the core driver. That way it seem possible to add 
> or remove chipset at compilation times.
> > I also like Gerard's solution of suffix with a number, but I think that
> > would be better done as part of the version number of the package.
> >
> > Cydergoth
> >
> > gerard klaver wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 23:37 +0200, michel Xhaard wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > We are at a corner. In july the v4l1 is dead and v4l2 should be set.
> > > > Spca5xx work for kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x until now. For July i have to
> > > > change only 2.6.x kernel should be supported with v4l2. After some
> > > > discussion the decision is to provided in June the spca5xx-final with
> > > > both kernel and start a new branch. Some people suggest i changed the
> > > > spca5xx name. For the story i would like to follow the spca road :)  but
> > > > ofcourse our module have nothing todo with Sunplus despite his name . So
> > > > if you have some idea post to the list :)
> > > > I suggest GLWD -> Generic Linux Webcams Driver
> > > > Bests regards
> > > Sounds good, maybe adding a 1 completes the new name (GLWD1)?
> > > So for the future other packages (or when package needs to be split) can
> > > have GLWD2.

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