Re: Time for a v4l-utils 1.8.0 release

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Hi Mauro,

On Tuesday 05 May 2015 17:22:35 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Tue, 05 May 2015 21:08:49 +0200 Gregor Jasny escreveu:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > It's already more than half a year since the last v4l-utils release. Do
> > you have any pending commits or objections? If no one vetos I'd like to
> > release this weekend.
> 
> There is are a additions I'd like to add to v4l-utils:
> 
> 1) on DVB, ioctls may fail with -EAGAIN. Some parts of the libdvbv5 don't
> handle it well. I made one quick hack for it, but didn't have time to
> add a timeout to avoid an endless loop. The patch is simple. I just need
> some time to do that;
> 
> 2) The Media Controller control util (media-ctl) doesn't support DVB.
> 
> The patchset adding DVB support on media-ctl is ready, and I'm merging
> right now, and matches what's there at Kernel version 4.1-rc1 and upper.
> 
> Yet, Laurent and Sakari want to do some changes at the Kernel API, before
> setting it into a stone at Kernel v 4.1 release.

I think Hans wants changes too.

> This has to happen on the next 4 weeks.

We'll try to, but depending on how review goes this might take more time.

In the meantime I suggest moving the media-ctl changes to a separate branch 
and go with the v1.8.0 release as planned.

> So, I suggest to postpone the release of 1.8.0 until the end of this month.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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