From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig for radio cards to allow VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:58:42 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151341122.13794.2.camel@praia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606260855kf2e57ado5c69d8295d1be5@mail.gmail.com>
Jon,
Em Seg, 2006-06-26 às 11:55 -0400, Jon Smirl escreveu:
> On 6/26/06, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote:
> > All radio stuff at kernel are still using the old obsoleted V4L1 API,
> > and requires some changes to be V4L2 compliant. The correct fix is to
> > replace the old calls to V4L2 calls, and include videodev2.h header
> > instead of videodev.h.
>
> Is anyone who knows how V4L2 works going to port those drivers?
Nobody started working on it yet.
> I would hate to see 20 device drivers lost because they weren't ported
> and V4L1 gets removed.
The driver conversion shouldn't be that hard. The main problem is that
those devices are really obsolete hardware and none of the current V4L
developers have those boards for testing. Do you have any of those
devices? Can you help porting it to V4L2?
Cheers,
Mauro.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-26 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-25 17:40 [PATCH] Kconfig for radio cards to allow VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT Jon Smirl
2006-06-25 18:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-06-25 19:48 ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-26 13:06 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-06-26 15:55 ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-26 16:58 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2006-06-26 17:15 ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-26 19:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-30 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-31 21:28 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-07-31 23:36 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-01 15:46 ` PATCH: Convert usb fm radio to V4L2 and move to the right directory Alan Cox
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