Message ID | 1366054058.4159.101.camel@fourier |
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State | New |
Headers | show |
This is a device specific quirk and should have little to no risk of regression. It's also received positive test confirmation by the original bug reporter. Acked-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com> On 04/15/2013 12:27 PM, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > *This patch has been sent upstream. > > Bug reference: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1168430 > monitor webcam not detected (intermitent) > > [IMPACT] > > This model-specific quirk fixes an observed Raring regression > from 12.10. > > Some models of OmniVision webcam need a pre-existing quirk in > order to avoid a condition which prevents the driver from > recognizing the harware consistently. Some timing difference > between 12.10 and Raring exposed the problem for this particular > OmniVision model, which wasn't in the quirk list. > > [TESTCASE] > > Bug reporter confirms that adding this model to the quirk list > fixes the problem, allowing the webcam to be consistently recognized > in Raring. > > [Regression Potential] > > Very low risk: This patch affects only this particular machine > and webcam model, and only inhibits the query for a feature which > this webcam doesn't support anyway. > > Thanks, > > -Kamal > > -------- >8 ---------------------------------------------------- > > The following changes since commit c4558a72f5420a930a6f94f91b8b0440a595590f: > > Linux 3.8.7 (2013-04-12 12:51:12 -0600) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://kernel.ubuntu.com/kamal/ubuntu-raring.git lp1168430 > > for you to fetch changes up to d8f88f121508231833b6cabce4aaccf6a4d8b077: > > UBUNTU: SAUCE: [media] uvcvideo: quirk PROBE_DEF for Dell Studio / OmniVision webcam (2013-04-15 12:04:54 -0700) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Kamal Mostafa (1): > UBUNTU: SAUCE: [media] uvcvideo: quirk PROBE_DEF for Dell Studio / OmniVision webcam > > drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 9 +++++++++ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > > >
On 15.04.2013 21:27, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/kamal/ubuntu-raring.git lp1168430
Looks isolated enough. Only nasty thing might be that this looks like one of
those patches that can be applied an infinite number of times.