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Quickcam device driver for Linux
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to provide a kernel
driver for the quick-cam...
The interface would be for example /dev/cam2gif to give the user
a real-time gif file each time it is read on.
Of course this would be slower than direct hardware access, but if you
changed your hardware, you would just need to change your kernel driver,
and NOT rewrite all your software.
There should be better image formats than gif for real-time image
acquisition that would be included...
You should also be able to define the image size or different
parameter (with IOCTLS? or a writable device driver?)
I think this could be done with a library, but it would be cleaner
and more general to program it in the kernel.
What do you think about that? Good idea? Bad idea? Why?
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