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From: Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@desy.de>
To: Alan Nisota <alannisota@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for Genpix-CW3K (damages hardware)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:52:59 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0905201051290.6762@pub3.ifh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D2338C.7040703@gmail.com>

Hi Alan,

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Alan Nisota wrote:

> I have been informed by the manufacturer that the patch currently in the v4l 
> tree to support the Genpix-CW3K version of the hardware will actually damage 
> the firmware on recent units.  As he seems to not want this hardware 
> supported in Linux, and I do not know how to detect the difference between 
> affected and not-affected units, I am requesting the immediate removal of 
> support for this device.  This patch removes a portion of the changeset 
> dce7e08ed2b1 applied 2007-08-18 relating to this specific device.
>
> Signed off by: Alan Nisota <anisota@gmail.com>


Finally I found the time to work on your patch. I adapted it to not remove 
the code, but to put it under comments and #if 0's .

Like that we protect "normal" users and advanced users need to do some 
efforts before getting in danger.

I hope it is OK with you.

regards,
Patrick.

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   Mail: patrick.boettcher@desy.de
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-20  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-31 15:15 [PATCH] Remove support for Genpix-CW3K (damages hardware) Alan Nisota
2009-04-01  7:35 ` Patrick Boettcher
2009-04-01 20:01   ` Alan Nisota
2009-04-05 14:55     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-05 15:19       ` Alan Nisota
2009-05-20  8:52 ` Patrick Boettcher [this message]

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