Am Mittwoch, den 26.07.2006, 20:16 -0400 schrieb Alan Cox: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:33:38AM +0200, hermann pitton wrote: > > > v4l1 compat module when user programs are not allowed to use it? Is the > > > goal to allow old V4L1_binaries to be used, but not allow old V4L1 sources > > > to compile? That's an odd choice, to provide more compatibility for > > > binaries and sources. > > No application should be including kernel headers. Period. I'll take that as a call for the future, else I'm without words. To start simple, FedoraCore did not include any v4l2 until FC4, but dropped the for development 'useless' xawtv and had tvtime v4l2. > IIRC, a time-slot to drop v4l1-compat is not yet announced? > > We don't dump existing interfaces provided to general applications. v4l1-compat > can be seen as a long term historical wart I'm afraid. Nothing against it, but I would have to correct my previous post to Ben concerning the fmtools then to: "do nothing as usual". Hermann _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
