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Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver
Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common 'uvcvideo' kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support.
With the uvcvideo driver being quite common on many Linux laptops for web camera handling, it's of broad benefit and every little bit of power savings helps. One of the patches does go on to note there is the potential of needing some device-specific quirks if this granular power savings isn't playing nice everywhere: See this patch series for all the details if interested in granular power saving support for the uvcvideo Linux driver.
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