Hi David, Thanks for reaching out.
On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 11:58:52AM +0200, David Heidelberg wrote: > Hello! > > The story begins by me ordering Dell 9440. After very good record of Dell > XPS series Linux support I thought it'll be a win. Boy I was wrong. > > Anyway, solving missing bits has included 4 patches, which can be seen here: > https://gitlab.com/dhxx/linux/-/commits/l9440-webcam (last 4+9). > > - general fixes (patching existing code): > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/cover/20250417111337.38142-1-hdego...@redhat.com/ > - OV02C10 (standalone): > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/patch/20241118212158.624299-1-heimir.sverris...@gmail.com/#26127637 > - OV02E10 (standalone) > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/cover/20250407-b4-media-comitters-next-25-03-13-ov02e10-v4-0-211e3e6fa...@linaro.org/ > > For my use case, only OV02E10 is needed, but other models needs OV02C10. > > And now the ugliest part... USBIO > > - usb-io dropped in + Kconfig/Makefile changes > - https://github.com/intel/usbio-drivers/pull/33 > - https://github.com/intel/usbio-drivers/pull/34 > > This could be eventually kept outside as module. Sounds still better to > create wiki page with note: Install this module and it'll work, instead of > asking them to patch existing kernel module, add two modules to see which > one will work and then install USBIO module. > > What do you think? If you would be OK with this enablement, I volunteer to > prepare the patches against 6.12 (so far I did 6.13/14). After having a look now at this written down I think we have here a similar situation as in https://bugs.debian.org/1103877 . While Fedora might do it, we will not take such patches and carry for a long time in our releases. So I have two suggestions: Make sure that, where sensible, all support lands in mainline, eventually you will then be able to use a backports kernel for this use case. Secondly: you migh coordinate/work with Bjørn Mork <bj...@gustav.mork.no> to have a common approach for th eparts around usbio. Let's see what the other team members comment on it. Regards, Salvatore
