On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on cleaning up some old radio drivers and while doing that I > started wondering about the usefulness of the radio_nr module option (and > the corresponding video_nr/vbi_nr module options for video devices). > > Is that really still needed? It originates from pre-udev times, but it seems > fairly useless to me these days. I can tell you from lurking in the mythtv-users IRC channel, that there are still many, many users of video_nr. Yes, they can in theory accomplish the same thing through udev, but they aren't today, and if you remove the functionality you'll have lots of users scambling to figure out why stuff that previously worked is now broken. This tends to be more an issue with tuner cards than uvc devices, presumably because MythTV starts up unattended and you're more likely to have more than one capture device. My hope is that once the media controller interface becomes more mature (including adoption by userland applications such as Myth) that it will eliminate the need for these sorts of hacks entirely. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
