On 24.11.2011 18:44, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Thursday, November 24, 2011 18:08:05 Andreas Oberritter wrote: >> Don't break existing Userspace APIs for no reason! It's OK to add the >> new API, but - pretty please - don't just blindly remove audio.h and >> video.h. They are in use since many years by av7110, out-of-tree drivers >> *and more importantly* by applications. Yes, I know, you'd like to see >> those out-of-tree drivers merged, but it isn't possible for many >> reasons. And even if they were merged, you'd say "Port them and your >> apps to V4L". No! That's not an option. > > I'm not breaking anything. All apps will still work. > > One option (and it depends on whether people like it or not) is to have > audio.h, video.h and osd.h just include av7110.h and add a #warning > that these headers need to be replaced by the new av7110.h. > > And really remove them at some point in the future. > > But the important thing to realize is that the ABI hasn't changed (unless > I made a mistake somewhere). So why don't you just leave the headers where they are and add a notice about the new V4L API as a comment? What you proposed breaks compilation. If you add a warning, it breaks compilation for programs compiled with -Werror. Both are regressions. Regards, Andreas -- 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
