Hi! > > > What are relations to > > > Linux kernel that you mentioned? How this can be avoided? > > > > If I understand it correctly, webcamd at https://github.com/hselasky/webcamd > > was started as a user-space daemon that provides Linux USB Kernel > > functions, so that relevant Linux-based webcam drivers can somehow > > be integrated. > > > > At least that's how HPS announced it in 2010: > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-usb/2010-January/008069.html > > Yeah. It resides in the userland because of GPLv2 license, so it > cannot be just copy-pasted into the new in-kernel webcam code which > must be BSD licensed. Also because it supports ~1500 devices the > rewrite may not be feasible?
>From what I learned about AI coding success stories, not much is 'not feasible' any longer. > Because "daemon currently depends on libc, pthreads, libusb and > libcuse" there is not much kernel involved right? > Except the Linux > kernel is a moving target so the copy-paste into webcamd may not > always be trivial :-P Yes, I think this is why kuon mentioned Linux kernel topics. -- [email protected] +49 171 3101372 Now what ?
