On Friday 19 March 2010 09:46:02 Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On Friday 19 March 2010 08:59:08 Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> V4L1 support has been marked as scheduled for removal for a long time. > >> The deadline for that in the feature-removal-schedule.txt file was July > >> 2009. > >> > >> I think it is time that we remove the V4L1 compatibility support from > >> V4L2 drivers for 2.6.35. > > > > Do you mean just removing V4L1-specific code from V4L2 drivers, or > > removing the V4L1 compatibility layer completely ? > > The compat layer as well. So the only V4L1 code left is that for V4L1-only > drivers. > > This means that V4L2 drivers can only be used by V4L2-aware applications > and can no longer be accessed by V4L1-only applications. > > >> It would help with the videobuf cleanup as well, but that's just a bonus. > > > > Do we still have V4L1-only drivers that use videobuf ? > > No V4L1-only drivers use videobuf, but videobuf has support for the V4L1 > compat support in V4L2 drivers (the cgmbuf ioctl). So when we remove the > compat support, then that videobuf code can be removed as well. In that case, please go for it :-) -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- 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
