On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Em 24-11-2011 16:13, Manu Abraham escreveu: >> 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. > > If the driver is not merged yet, it can be changed. A DVB alone device shouldn't use V4L, while an existing interface exists. I have no plans of porting the driver to use DVB and V4L, for DVB alone operations. -- 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
