Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [2.6 patch] VIDEO_V4L1 shouldn't be user-visible | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | Date | Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:14:34 -0300 |
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Em Qui, 2006-06-29 às 20:59 -0400, Jon Smirl escreveu: > On 6/29/06, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote: > > Also, on V4L side, the V4L1 api is stopping V4L development. V4L API 2 > > is already at kernel since the beginning of kernel 2.6 series, and fixes > > several flaws at the old api (V4L1 API were designed on 2.1 series). > > Still now, most applications still implement only V4L1, and people do > > submit newer v4l1 drivers to us. > > > > We do really go ahead, making V4L2 API the standard. > > I don't think anyone would complain about dropping V4L1 if the people > pushing V4L2 were to port the 25 or so drivers that depend on V4L1 to > the V4L2 API. We are working on it. The issue will be someone to test all those drivers for the obsolete hardwares. > As long as those V4L1 dependent drivers are around > people are going to want to keep using V4L1. You may want to consider > building some in-kernel compatibility APIs into V4L2 to make porting > those drivers easier. Most of changes are just trivial. Just one will requre more work, since it is related to newer mmap methods on V4L2. > Cheers, Mauro.
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