On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:57:45AM +0100, martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl wrote:
> However, if every (class of) device outputs its data differently, the point
> of having an abstract hardware interface decays rapidly - so there's a 
> tradeoff to be made.

That's like audio cards outputing different audio formats ;-)

It should still be possible to abstract some setup interface (which probably
is ignored for webcams, not having to tune) and a "describe your output
mode" interface, plus a few bookeping (list all optional output formats,
what have you) ones.

Martin