On Saturday, June 18, 2011 23:30:46 Oliver Endriss wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2011 14:45:53 Hans Verkuil wrote: > > RFC: Proposal for a V4L2 decoder API > > ------------------------------------ > > > > This RFC is based on this discussion: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg32703.html > > > > The purpose is to remove the dependency of ivtv to the ioctls in dvb/audio.h > > and dvb/video.h. > > ... > > Whatever you define: You are not allowed to remove the old interface! Sure you can (see e.g. V4L1 API), it is just very, very painful and takes a very, very long time. > Linus always stated that breaking userspace is a no go. > > So you may add a new interface, but you must not remove the old one. I wasn't planning on removing anything. Although I might deprecate the old API eventually in ivtv. But apps like VLC and MythTV use it in their ivtv code, so I can't do that until they are all converted. So we're talking 2-3 years from now at the earliest. I'm not even sure if it is worth the effort. 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
