On 13/08/2023 15:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * 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. I just merged it for 6.6. Regards, Hans
