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On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 23:26, Brendon and Wendy wrote:
> All,
>  
> I'm interested in getting my USB web camera working under -current. I
> see that the uaudio.c (and associated files) are really old relative to
> the netbsd ones, and that record capability is missing from the FreeBSD
> equivalent files.
> 
> So, my question is would anyone object to me having a go at freshening
> the uaudio driver up? Could the audio guys please let me know if this is
> totally infeasable?

You will have problems getting usb audio working reliably in current.
Last time I looked at it, there were lots of problems because audio has
been locked up for SMP but USB hasn't. As a result, the audio backend
calls USB code without Giant being held. Things might have changed since
then, I guess.