* Hans Verkuil (hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 03/02/2023 07:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 09:48:46PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > >> In fact, the plan is to replace the old and deprecated videobuf framework by the vb2 > >> framework in the bttv driver in the next 2-3 months or so. That will also automatically > >> solve this problem. > > > > It would be great to expedite removal of the old videbuf code given > > how many problems it has. > > We're working on it. A lot of old drivers in drivers/staging/media/deprecated will > be removed in 6.3, and that leaves the cx18, bttv and saa7146 drivers that still use > vb1. > > This week I posted patches converting cx18 to vb2 and someone else will work on the > bttv conversion. We thought we could remove saa7146 as well, but it turns out that > that is still very much in use (somewhat unexpectedly), so I plan to convert that > one this month (I hope). > > I aim for removing vb1 in kernel 6.4 or 6.5. Did this go in, I'm happy to give it a go if this is a world to test. Dave > Regards, > > Hans -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux | Happy \ \ dave @ treblig.org | | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/
