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If userland software can soft brick the camera, the problem is not the userland software.
by GuiA 8y ago
If userland software can soft brick the camera, the problem is not the userland software.
- jakear 8y agoThis is what happens when you choose “freedom” over stability. (iOS is not necessarily what I mean by “stability”. Not anymore at least.)
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI'm not sure Android is a shining example of freedom.
- ariwilson 8y agoCompared to iOS? Yes it is.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoyes, perhaps, and it can be made more so, but the parent post said essentially 'Android is an example of what happens when you choose freedom over stability', and I don't think Android is a good example of that. There's lots of 'different Androids' but most of the problems come down to manufacturers not quality-testing their software and the (perhaps inevitable) use of all of the proprietary bits in the mobile that third parties thus can't fix/optimise.
- rjsw 8y agoIs that a Linux thing rather than being specific to Android ? V4L does a lot of camera stuff in userland.
- izacus 8y agoAndroid doesn't really user V4L (at least not in most devices). Fact of the matter is that camera drivers are rather buggy on many devices and if you manage to crash the camera library or the kernel module, it'll most likely break other apps. You can of course blame that on Android, but pretty much no operating system will recover a device when the driver itself is broken and refuses to reset the device properly :)