On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Em 24-11-2011 16:01, Manu Abraham escreveu: >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> 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. >> >> >> That won't work with other non av7110 hardware. > > There isn't any non-av7110 driver using it at the Kernel. Anyway, we can put > a warning at the existing headers as-is, for now, putting them to be removed > for a new kernel version, like 3.4. No, that's not an option. The to-be merged saa716x driver depends on it. A DVB alone device need not depend V4L2 for it's operation. Also, it doesn't make any sense to have device specific headers to be used by an application, when drivers share more than one commonality. -- 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
