[marcodiego]

A friend of mine used a cheap (pac207) webcam. He complained to me that the camera image was too dark. I looked in the kernel for its driver... found the line which controlled its brightness... sent a patch to maintainer to increase. The maintainer accepted just a bit lower than what I suggest; he said that if the exposure was too long some protocol (probably USB) could break.

Update the driver on my friends' computer (of course, without waiting a new kernel release) and boom, much better image from the camera! He was happy. He thanked me for how I fixed it, I thanked him for giving me opportunity for such a small and useful hack.

Got back to visit him a few days later. Noticed he wasn't using the webcam anymore. I asked "where's your webcam?", he said: "Damn webcam only works correctly under linux!"