From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:32:03 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] gst-fsl-plugins: requires kernel headers <= 3.10 (branch yem/quickies) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140726003203.355212eb@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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