> Regarding this topic... Before dedicating time and effort to make proper integration of this driver into the kernel, I would like to see all the pros and cons. The only pro I see right now it that the driver will always be compatible with current kernel without additional effort: is that true? Also the old driver doesnt support LML33 properly and actualyl doesnt seem to be working right now > 1. The driver IMHO is not yet ready for average user. It requires more autodetect features, autoload, etc. autodetect magic only ever works up to a point anyway > 2. It still uses himem interface for large uncompressed captures which must be changed for bootmem interface (is it correct?). Eventually. Pauline did a patch to provide bigmem functionality off bootmem > > 3. I'm not sure how long i2c-old subsystem will be alive in the kernel tree. BTW is it compatible with the new one in case if someone uses other video drivers based on the new i2c subsystem together with the old one? 2.5.0 the old one goes. And no you cannot mix/match. I've already done some conversions of drivers to new i2c so Im happy od this one too. > I could write more cons, like need to spend time for fitting the driver into video drivers directory, patching configuration scripts, Configure.help file, etc. > > So, what do you think? Im offering to go over it test it and do the integration work.
