From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from galahad.ideasonboard.com ([185.26.127.97]:43226 "EHLO galahad.ideasonboard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750699AbbEFCHZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 22:07:25 -0400 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Gregor Jasny , Linux Media Mailing List , Hans de Goede , Hans Verkuil , Sakari Ailus Subject: Re: Time for a v4l-utils 1.8.0 release Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 05:07:19 +0300 Message-ID: <1597461.hFCejjGnu0@avalon> In-Reply-To: <20150505172235.4bef50eb@recife.lan> References: <55491541.1040709@googlemail.com> <20150505172235.4bef50eb@recife.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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