Re: Status of driver ov511 based cameras

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> Question if I fix it again what are the chances it ends in Fedora?   How
> are orphaned drivers handled in the kernel?  Someone, who doesn't seem
> to be the original author, has been ensuring the 1.x continues compiling
> in 2.6.27 despite the changes in interface.

No, only if it ends up in upstream kernel will it be in Fedora.

You might try submitting the driver and fixes to Greg K-H's "Linux 
Staging" tree:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/329