[Repost, this time with rename-detection turned on...] This RFC patch series moves sn9c102 and omap24xx/tcm825x to staging. The sn9c102 driver has been deprecated for quite some time and most of the supported webcams are now part of gspca. Nobody has the hardware for the remaining webcams and nobody is actively maintaining this driver. Converting this driver to the v4l2 frameworks would be a major undertaking. This driver is no longer part of Fedora for some time now without ever receiving any complaints, so instead of updating it it is a better idea to phase it out. Step one of that process is to move it to staging. This decision was taken during the last media summit in Edinburgh. The second patch moves the omap24xx and tcm825x to staging, together with the v4l2-int-device source. These drivers are the only ones that use that old int-device API, nobody is actively maintaining these any more, and attempts to convert them to the subdev API have failed (it compiles, but it crashes and nobody has the time to chase the problem). I really want to get rid of v4l2-int-device, especially since there are some platforms out there (MXC) that still use it. None of the drivers based on int-device can ever be upstreamed, so I am hoping that just removing this deprecated API altogether will finally convince the maintainers of those out-of-tree platforms to switch to a modern API. Moving these drivers to staging is the first step and my plan is to remove it completely second half of 2014. A nice side-effect of moving the v4l2-int-device source and header to staging is also that nobody can use v4l2-int-device.h anymore in another driver since it is no longer part of the include directory. Regards, Hans -- 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
