On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 08:43:35 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:16:42 +0200 > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Mauro, > > > > Please pull from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb > > Done. We should convert TUNER_SET_CONFIG to v4l2-subdev, in order to stop using > the i2c command interface. I didn't checked, but I suspect that this is the > last case of using the i2c command on v4l drivers. > > The removal of i2c command will probably make Jean happy as well, since > this will also remove some legacy code from i2c core. Oh yeah \o/ > > This finalizes (I hope :-) ) the v4l2-subdev conversion. Most of these > > patches above remove code that's no longer needed. There are also some > > v4l2-subdev.h API improvements that I postponed until all the drivers were > > converted. These changes are trivial, but touch on a lot of files. > > Please let's avoid changing the internal API again on 2.6.31. We should focus > on fixing the bugs during this cycle, since the changes were far above the > usual, and affected all drivers. > > > The other major change is that the old i2c autoprobing API is now used for > > kernels < 2.6.26. This was < 2.6.22, but a bug in i2c_new_probed_subdev > > prevent us from using the new i2c API for kernels 2.6.22-2.6.25. Actually > > it would be possible with 2.6.25, but since there were some other i2c API > > changes in 2.6.26 anyway I decided that it made life easier if we put the > > switchover point at 2.6.26. > > Ok. > > > There are some other cleanups I could do, but all the important ones are now > > taken care of. > > > > I would like to take the opportunity to thank Jean Delvare for his support > > and his help in testing various drivers and working on ir-kbd-i2c, and > > Mauro for processing and merging all my patches. I feel a little guilty for > > burying Mauro in this big pile of patches :-) > > > > I also want to thank Andy Walls for doing the cx18 conversion, Mike Isely > > for doing the pvrusb2 conversion, Douglas Landgraf for doing the em28xx > > conversion, Trent Piepho for his reviews, Steve Toth for testing the > > cx23885 driver, Devin Heitmueller for converting au8522/au0828 and Sri > > Deevi for converting the cx231xx driver at short notice. > > > > I've no doubt forgotten people, for which I apologize. > > Thank you and all the others for the efforts. I expect you all to take extra > care to fix all regressions that may eventually rise with those changes. In > particular, please track the bugzillas at kernel.org. Yes, I am totally committed to help fix any i2c issue that may arise as a consequence of the recent driver conversions. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
