From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: v4l <video4linux-list@redhat.com>, michael@mihu.de
Subject: Re: Proposed removal of the dpc7146 driver
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:14:44 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707171444.10f0e7a5@gaivota> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080707220641.65f7bc08@hyperion.delvare>
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:06:41 +0200
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:41:03 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > If no one objects, then I propose to remove this driver in kernel 2.6.28
> > and announce its removal by adding the following notice to the 2.6.27
> > feature-removal-schedule.txt document:
> >
> > What: V4L2 dpc7146 driver
> > When: September 2008
> > Why: Old driver for the dpc7146 demonstration board that is no longer
> > relevant. The last time this was tested on actual hardware was probably
> > around 2002. Since this is a driver for a demonstration board the
> > decision was made to remove it rather than spending a lot of effort
> > continually updating this driver to stay in sync with the latest
> > internal V4L2 or I2C API.
> > Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
> >
> >
> > Michael Hunold, the author of this driver, agrees with my assessment
> > that this driver is no longer relevant.
>
> +1
>
> (Less i2c-related drivers means less work for me.)
Seems ok also to me.
Cheers,
Mauro
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-07 19:41 Proposed removal of the dpc7146 driver Hans Verkuil
[not found] ` <20080707220641.65f7bc08@hyperion.delvare>
2008-07-07 20:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2008-07-07 20:17 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-07-07 20:47 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-07-07 20:59 ` Hans Verkuil
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