Re: [RFCv2 PATCH 12/12] Remove audio.h, video.h and osd.h.

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On Thursday 24 November 2011 18:37:02 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Userspace applications that support av7110 can include the new linux/av7110.h
> header. Other applications that support out-of-tree drivers can just have
> their own copy of audio.h, osd.h and video.h. So, it won't break or prevent
> existing applications to keep working.

No way! Changes of the user-space API are not acceptable.
If you do not believe that, ask Linux Torwalds!

> The thing is that the media API presents two interfaces to control mpeg decoders.
> This is confusing, and, while one of them has active upstream developers working
> on it, adding new drivers and new features on it, the other API is not being
> updated accordingly, and no new upstream drivers use it.

The decoder API is as old as the DVB spec.

NACK to any attempts to remove these files.

Oliver

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