Em 27-12-2010 10:21, Hans Verkuil escreveu: > On Monday, December 27, 2010 12:38:48 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> Now that all hard work to remove V4L1 happened, it doesn't make >> sense on keeping videodev.h just because of two obsoleted drivers. > > Perhaps it is also time to mark the videodev2.h _OLD ioctls for removal in > 2.6.39? > > If we are getting rid of old stuff anyway, then this will also be a nice > cleanup. > > Perhaps we can even delete it without marking it for removal. After all, > removing it will only affect binaries compiled against a *really* old kernel > (I suspect 2.5.something). Anything that has been recompiled will automatically > use the correct ioctls. We can't just remove the _OLD, as they're used internally, in order to handle those old binaries. I think that not all come from 2.5 times. So, the better is to mark them to be removed for .39. > > Regards, > > Hans > -- 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
