Comment 3 for bug 309039

Hi Martin, I'm a Cheese developer.
I think the "important" bug Loic did talk about was the one about webcams supporting just one resolution not working properly. The other modifications are just minor leak fixes.

I explicitly asked Loic to open this SRU for the improved debug information about the webcam devices.
Particularly the commit about Vendor and Product Id is the one I care most.
As you probably know with 2.6.27 kernel series (so, with Ubuntu Intrepid) v4l decoding stuff has been moved from kernel to a userspace library, libv4l. Many webcam drivers that were developed out of mainstream have been included in mainline kernel. New code means new bugs at driver level that most of users just see as Cheese bugs. So, we received, and still receive a lot of bug reports about webcams devices not working anymore with Cheese. That patch would greatly speed up bug triaging because we wouldn't have to ask questions like "Which webcam do you have?" or "Which driver does it uses?".
Since a great part of our userbase use Ubuntu Intrepid it would be great to have at least that patch included.
Regarding the other commits, I don't really think it's so much code, just normal bugfixes that we considered unharmful enough for 2.24 series. (By the way, I thought GNOME 2.24.x series had some kind of fast path with SRUs, isn't it?)
Thank you for looking at this,
Filippo