kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches
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Quoted 6 lines · Denis Vlasenko
If the maintainer wants it pulled, I feel it would be stealing to add it back into the kernel without his approval. Perhaps we could rewrite the driver and merge it with some other webcam driver projects.
This is the problem. It is far easier to _feel_ something than to _do_ something.
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Intersting, that in the legal case, people are having a bad feeling, but in illegal case of doing reverse-engineering, drivers make it into the kernel...
Reverse engineering for interoperability purposes is legal even in the USA.
Thank you for pointing that out. Really. I mean it.
And nothing else it is.
Happy hacking.
IDA anyone? (objdump does nicely, too. I looked at the disassembler output for about one hour today and my conclusion is that it's a pretty simple job. Knowing the stack concept and the "mov", "call", "lea", "add", "sub", "xor", "sar" and "sh[l|r]" instructions is enough.)
I would do it if I just had the time.
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Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net http://www.winischhofer.net/ twini AT xfree86 DOT org