I started working remotely on my home desktop due to Covid. I bought a webcam for meetings. On Linux it usually works fine, except about 20% of the time it cras

I started working remotely on my home desktop due to Covid. I bought a webcam for meetings. On Linux it usually works fine, except about 20% of the time it crashes and can't be brought back up. I can fix _that_ issue with a script that disables and re-enables the USB hub it's part of, but that script, in turn, causes the kernel-mode uvcvideo driver to crash with a null pointer exception about 40% of the time I run it. Once I get in this state, a reboot is the only way I can find to fix the issue. Not a distro thing -- it happens in both Ubuntu and Fedora as well as with a stock kernel built from the latest git source. Webcam is working 100% fine with no issues on Windows.