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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] gst-fsl-plugins: requires kernel headers <= 3.10 (branch yem/quickies)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:32:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140726003203.355212eb@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1406323367.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:28:11 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> As reported by Gary, gst-fsl-plugins use part of the v4l2 API that was
> removed in linux 3.11, so it should not be made available for toolchains
> with kernel headers >= 3.11, but only for headers <= 3.10.

That's kind of odd. Isn't the kernel to userspace API supposed to
remain backward compatible? Isn't this rather a story of custom v4l2
APIs added by Freescale but never mainlined?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 21:28 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] gst-fsl-plugins: requires kernel headers <= 3.10 (branch yem/quickies) Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-25 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] docs/manual: enhance doc for BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_X_Y Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-26 18:25   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-07-27 12:34   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-27 12:49     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-27 13:04       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-27 13:08   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-25 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/gst-fsl-plugins: not available for kernel headers >= 3.11 Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-25 22:32 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-07-25 23:21   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] gst-fsl-plugins: requires kernel headers <= 3.10 (branch yem/quickies) Gary Bisson

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