On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 08:41:33PM +0200, Marcus Glocker wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 04:09:26PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Included is my initial effort to port the dual-licensed driver
> > for Fushicai Audio-Video Grabber (vendor 0x1b71 product 0x3002).
> > 
> > As I mentioned in previous email it is "mostly working". I have
> > tested it on amd64 and macppc. The macppc audio issue mentioned
> > got resolved thanks to a hint from Alexandre Ratchov; I needed
> > some education on how to use sndiod :-) Thanks Alex.
> > 
> > I realize not many of these devices are out in the hands of
> > people who could test this code, but there are some obvious
> > bits (especially in the audio ops) that I am "winging", partly
> > because, the audio interface required them.
> > 
> > There is .h and two .c files; as mentioned, I kept the original
> > driver source bits and what I borrowed from uvideo.c separate.
> > If they must be combine into one .c file, I leave that part to
> > Marcus Glocker and company.
> > 
> > My main testing tool has been video(1). I had to modify it for
> > two reasons: 1. To test the mmap() interface and 2. because
> > to determine format description video(1) does a strcmp() rather
> > than use the pixelformat member of the v4l2_fmtdesc struct.
> > Patch at the very end. Maybe upstream might be interested in
> > the mmap change?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > --patrick
> 
> Ok, lets work together to get this driver imported.
> 
> First thing to sort out are the Copyrights:
> 
> - Please change the uvideo Copyright to your own and add a sentence like
>   "Based on the uvideo driver".  You can find some good examples e.g.
>   here: cd /usr/src/sys/dev/usb ; grep -i based *.c
> 
> - Can you please get in touch with the original authors of the other
>   code and ask them if they could fix their Copyright to make it valid?
>   Theo did also point out about a valid Copyright format:
>   1. Copyright ...
>   2. [rights granted]
>   3. [legacy disclaimer, not really required]
>   4. [extra text]
>   5. [source]
>   Important is that the Copyright must be followed by the rights.

Thanks. I'll get on this.

--patrick

> In the meantime I give the driver spin.  Maybe I can find such a device
> somewhere at one point.
> 

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