Re: Upcoming v4l-utils 1.6.0 release

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 09/30/2014 05:20 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 27/09/14 13:54, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Em Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:57:11 +0200
>> Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com> escreveu:
>>> As far as I understand the service_location feature should work but is
>>> an extension to the standard. Does it harm if we keep it until we have
>>> something better in place to handle extensions?
>>>
>>> The service list descriptor feature is unimplemented (and thus broken).
>>> Would it help if we return -1 from dvb_desc_service_list_init to reflect
>>> that fact or does it break something else? But I'd keep the symbol in
>>> the library to maintain ABI compatibility.
>
>> I would actually prefer if we could get rid of those two broken
>> descriptors on some release, and to re-add them only when they're
>> actually working.
>
> I have sent a patch series to remove the public headers of this two
> descriptors and provide stubs to maintain SONAME compatibility.
>
> Could you please ACK it?

About the 1.6.0 release, please do not release it until the series
fixing the regression in 1.4.0 with gstreamer which I've posted
today. A review of that series would be appreciated. If you're ok
with the series feel free to push it to master.

Regards,

Hans