Comment 43 for bug 215604

There is fixes but the driver doesn't work with all applications. Ekiga, VLC, Xawtv have troubles and I'm aware of system freezes with these applications. Consequently, it is not stable and there is no reason to propose the driver in any repository. Moreover even if it was part of the kernel, the driver is useless for new users as they have to set the webcam size to make the driver being able to identify which sub driver to use. This should be done by all distributions in the installation process, otherwise the user won't see any image of its webcam.
So Pander, please stay tuned with the help of the topic in Ubuntu-forum. The launchpad is definitely not the good place for that until the driver is stable.