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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:37:19 -0400
From:      Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject:   Re: Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint)
Message-ID:  <20111012033719.GA52137@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111011195707.GA18490@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
References:  <20111011162341.GA3048@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1318358149.13444.40.camel@xenon> <20111011193102.GB16736@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201110112139.52351.hselasky@c2i.net> <20111011195707.GA18490@triton8.kn-bremen.de>

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:57:07PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:39:52PM +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?
> 
> Hmm thats tricky...  usbd-linux?  Can't think of something really good...
> 
> 	Juergen

usbsd ?



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