There are some old broken definitions of ioctl's, where the
read/write arguments were marked wrong. The last one were added
on 2.6.6 kernel. Remove them, in order to cleanup some
copy_from_user/copy_to_user logic done inside V4L core.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index e348b7e..f2742e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -112,6 +112,27 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---------------------------
+What: Video4Linux: Remove obsolete ioctl's
+When: kernel 2.6.39
+Files: include/media/videodev2.h
+Why: Some ioctl's were defined wrong on 2.6.2 and 2.6.6, using the wrong
+ type of R/W arguments. They were fixed, but the old ioctl names are
+ still there, maintained to avoid breaking binary compatibility:
+ #define VIDIOC_OVERLAY_OLD _IOWR('V', 14, int)
+ #define VIDIOC_S_PARM_OLD _IOW('V', 22, struct v4l2_streamparm)
+ #define VIDIOC_S_CTRL_OLD _IOW('V', 28, struct v4l2_control)
+ #define VIDIOC_G_AUDIO_OLD _IOWR('V', 33, struct v4l2_audio)
+ #define VIDIOC_G_AUDOUT_OLD _IOWR('V', 49, struct v4l2_audioout)
+ #define VIDIOC_CROPCAP_OLD _IOR('V', 58, struct v4l2_cropcap)
+ There's no sense on preserving those forever, as it is very doubtful
+ that someone would try to use a such old binary with a modern kernel.
+ Removing them will allow us to remove some magic done at the V4L ioctl
+ handler.
+
+Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: sys_sysctl
When: September 2010
Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
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