Em 27-04-2011 23:48, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx escreveu: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:41:32 +0200, Ondrej Zary said: >> As V4L2 spec says that drivers shouldn't do any in-kernel image format >> conversion, remove it. > > Does this classify as breaking the API, and thus require a deprecation period? > Is it likely to break any userspace that wasn't planning on doing its own RGB > conversions? Yes, it does. Before we do something like that, we need to write an entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and wait for at least one kernel release before actually removing such feature. It is not that bad, as libv4l is present on almost all modern distros, but still it is an API breakage and we need to play by the book. Thanks! Mauro. -- 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
