From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from racoon.tvdr.de ([188.40.50.18]:45172 "EHLO racoon.tvdr.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753134Ab1KYPot (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:44:49 -0500 Received: from dolphin.tvdr.de (dolphin.tvdr.de [192.168.100.2]) by racoon.tvdr.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id pAPFaBmt018848 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:36:11 +0100 Received: from [192.168.100.10] (hawk.tvdr.de [192.168.100.10]) by dolphin.tvdr.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pAPFZxoF011732 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:36:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4ECFB5DF.1040806@tvdr.de> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:35:59 +0100 From: Klaus Schmidinger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFCv2 PATCH 10/12] av7110: replace audio.h, video.h and osd.h by av7110.h. References: <1322141949-5795-1-git-send-email-hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <5276295e57ca56ed2a27148d918b63b00dd05b34.1322141686.git.hans.verkuil@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <5276295e57ca56ed2a27148d918b63b00dd05b34.1322141686.git.hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 24.11.2011 14:39, Hans Verkuil wrote: > From: Hans Verkuil > > Create a new public header, av7110.h, that contains all the av7110 > specific audio, video and osd APIs that used to be defined in dvb/audio.h, > dvb/video.h and dvb/osd.h. These APIs are no longer part of DVBv5 but are > now av7110-specific. > > This decision was taken during the 2011 Prague V4L-DVB workshop. > > Ideally av7110 would be converted to use the replacement V4L2 MPEG > decoder API, but that's a huge job for such an old driver. > > Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil This would break applications, especially VDR. I therefore strongly oppose this! You may introduce new APIs as you like, but don't break the existing ones that have worked for many years. Nacked-by: Klaus Schmidinger Klaus