Philips webcam

[Derek Broughton]

Gerald Dachs wrote:

> Most likely this version of the driver doesn't recognize your
> camera. I would look now into the source code, whether the
> vendor and product id of your camera can be found.
> In similar situations with wlan usb sticks I could add the
> missing ids and the stick simply worked. This works very
> often, because the driver is made for a chip inside the device,
> but these chips are used then by many vendors with their unique
> vendor ids. The driver checks whether a device with his chip is
> installed by probing for all vendor and product ids it knows.
> If a new vendor decides to use this chip, or a vendor makes a
> change of the product id, it is invisible for the driver.

Really?  This seems a backwards way to go about it.  If udev loads the
appropriate driver for a device, the driver should know that it's
responsible for that device, and further checking inside the module code
seems unnecessary.
-- 
derek