Re: Removal of V4L1 drivers

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On Friday, December 24, 2010 15:47:57 Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/24/2010 02:42 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > Hi Hans, Mauro,
> >
> > The se401, vicam, ibmcam and konicawc drivers are the only V4L1 drivers left in
> > 2.6.37. The others are either converted or moved to staging (stradis and cpia),
> > ready to be removed.
> >
> > Hans, what is the status of those four drivers?
> 
> se401:
> I have hardware I have taken a look at the driver, converting it is a bit
> of a pain because it uses a really ugly written statefull decompressor inside
> the kernel code. The cameras have an uncompressed mode too. I can start doing
> a conversion to / rewrite as gspca subdriver supporting only the uncompressed
> mode for now:
> 
> vicam:
> Devin Heitmueller (added to the CC) has one such a camera, which he still needs
> to get into my hands, once I have it I can convert the driver.

I think these two should be moved to staging for 2.6.38. And either removed or
converted for 2.6.39.

> ibmcam and konicawc:
> Both drivers were converted by me recently and the new gspca subdrivers for these
> have been pulled by Mauro for 2.6.37 .

So these two can be removed in 2.6.38, right?

Regards,

	Hans

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Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco
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