Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:08:23 +0200 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint) Message-ID: <1318363703.66605.3.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <201110112139.52351.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20111011162341.GA3048@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1318358149.13444.40.camel@xenon> <20111011193102.GB16736@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201110112139.52351.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 21:39 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Tuesday 11 October 2011 21:31:02 Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:35:49PM +0200, Michal Varga wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 20:21 +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > No. webcamd has become kind of a misnomer, it's in fact just a > > > > `wrapper' for several kinds of Linux usb kernel drivers to run them in > > > > FreeBSD userland. (We have now at least webcams, dvb tuners, IR > > > > transceivers, and usb tablets. :) > > > > > > Oh god, thank you for mentioning this. I've been personally keeping > > > webcamd out of my installations as "we don't need no stinkin webcams > > > here", but this is something completely different based on what you say > > > (especially the Wacom support). > > > > > > Was there any push to rename webcamd to something more meaningful yet? > > > > I'm not aware of anything like that... > > In my talk at EuroBSDcon I said that webcamd might be renamed in the future. > Does anyone have any good suggestions? > > --HPS Well if you insist on the "d" ending, something along, say, "usblinuxd"? Or possibly "kmodlinux[d]", if USB isn't going to be the absolute target forever... m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)
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