Re: [PATCH 0/6] V4L1 cleanups and videodev.h removal

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 27-12-2010 10:21, Hans Verkuil escreveu:
> On Monday, December 27, 2010 12:38:48 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Now that all hard work to remove V4L1 happened, it doesn't make
>> sense on keeping videodev.h just because of two obsoleted drivers.
> 
> Perhaps it is also time to mark the videodev2.h _OLD ioctls for removal in
> 2.6.39?
> 
> If we are getting rid of old stuff anyway, then this will also be a nice
> cleanup.
> 
> Perhaps we can even delete it without marking it for removal. After all,
> removing it will only affect binaries compiled against a *really* old kernel
> (I suspect 2.5.something). Anything that has been recompiled will automatically
> use the correct ioctls.

We can't just remove the _OLD, as they're used internally, in order to handle
those old binaries. I think that not all come from 2.5 times. So, the better is to
mark them to be removed for .39.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
>