On Saturday, December 25, 2010 10:18:20 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > 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. Thanks for your input! I'll work on this in the next few days. Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco -- 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
