From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932070AbWF2UT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:19:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932408AbWF2UT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:19:26 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:2466 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932070AbWF2UTZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:19:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] VIDEO_V4L1 shouldn't be user-visible From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Adrian Bunk Cc: v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060629192124.GD19712@stusta.de> References: <20060629192124.GD19712@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:18:37 -0300 Message-Id: <1151612317.3728.34.camel@praia> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.7.2.1-4mdv2007.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian, Em Qui, 2006-06-29 ās 21:21 +0200, Adrian Bunk escreveu: > VIDEO_V4L1 is an implementation detail that shouldn't be user-visible. Nack. V4L1 is an obsolete api, just like OSS, marked at feature-removal-schedule.txt to be removed on July (probably, we might need to postpone this, but this is another question). This API have serious trouble on handling video and audio standards used on analog world and should be discontinued in favor of V4L2 API. Like ALSA have, V4L2 drivers also have a compatibility driver that changes calls from legacy userspace applications into newer V4L2 calls (of course losing several features, working fine only for a few video standards that were supported by V4L1). Cheers, Mauro.