Re: [RFCv2 PATCH 12/12] Remove audio.h, video.h and osd.h.

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

Em 24-11-2011 16:01, Manu Abraham escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 24, 2011 18:08:05 Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>>> Don't break existing Userspace APIs for no reason! It's OK to add the
>>> new API, but - pretty please - don't just blindly remove audio.h and
>>> video.h. They are in use since many years by av7110, out-of-tree drivers
>>> *and more importantly* by applications. Yes, I know, you'd like to see
>>> those out-of-tree drivers merged, but it isn't possible for many
>>> reasons. And even if they were merged, you'd say "Port them and your
>>> apps to V4L". No! That's not an option.
>>
>> I'm not breaking anything. All apps will still work.
>>
>> One option (and it depends on whether people like it or not) is to have
>> audio.h, video.h and osd.h just include av7110.h and add a #warning
>> that these headers need to be replaced by the new av7110.h.
> 
> 
> That won't work with other non av7110 hardware.

There isn't any non-av7110 driver using it at the Kernel. Anyway, we can put
a warning at the existing headers as-is, for now, putting them to be removed
for a new kernel version, like 3.4.

Regards,
Mauro