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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:39:52 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jason Hellenthal <jhell@dataix.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Testing Wacom usb tablet with webcamd svn (and mypaint)
Message-ID:  <201110112139.52351.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111011193102.GB16736@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
References:  <20111011162341.GA3048@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1318358149.13444.40.camel@xenon> <20111011193102.GB16736@triton8.kn-bremen.de>

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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



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