On Feb 03 Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > I discovered (somewhat to my surprise) that the IEEE1394 stack was removed > from the kernel in 2.6.37. Your commit 66fa12c571d35e3cd62574c65f1785a460105397 > indicates that the ieee1394 firedtv code can be removed in an indepedent commit. > > It seems that this was forgotten since the firedtv-1394.c source is still > present. It is not forgotten, just delayed. :-) > Is it OK if I remove it? I assume that anything that depends on DVB_FIREDTV_IEEE1394 > can be deleted. This stuff can be removed indeed, and will be. After that, some further simplifications are possible since the backend abstraction is no longer necessary. > It would be nice to remove this since building the firedtv driver for older kernels > always gives problems on ubuntu due to some missing ieee1394 headers. How so? Then there is something wrong with the backported sources. If CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not defined, neither make nor gcc ever see anything that includes ieee1394 headers. Vice versa regarding CONFIG_FIREWIRE and the newer firewire headers. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-== --=- --=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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
