Em 24-12-2010 17:55, Hans de Goede escreveu: > Hi, > > On 12/24/2010 07:58 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> 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. >> > > Ok. > >>> 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? > > Right. OK, moving them to staging seems the best way to do it. Please, add a comment at Kconfig help that they use the legacy V4L1 API and may be removed from .39 if not converted to V4L2. Of course, the README file will also say that, maybe providing more details. Cheers, Mauro. -- 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
