On Monday, December 27, 2010 13:33:52 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > 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. I double checked and they were introduced in 2.6.2 except for CROPCAP_OLD which was introduced in 2.6.6. Do you want me to mark them for removal or will you? 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
