From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f177.google.com ([209.85.219.177]:49393 "EHLO mail-ew0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750928AbZCEBdl (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:33:41 -0500 Received: by ewy25 with SMTP id 25so2879659ewy.37 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:33:38 -0800 (PST) From: Kyle Guinn To: Hans de Goede Subject: Re: RFC on proposed patches to mr97310a.c for gspca and v4l Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:33:29 -0600 Cc: kilgota@banach.math.auburn.edu, Jean-Francois Moine , linux-media@vger.kernel.org References: <20090217200928.1ae74819@free.fr> <200903032050.13915.elyk03@gmail.com> <49AE3E2F.70905@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <49AE3E2F.70905@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903041933.29491.elyk03@gmail.com> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 02:39:11 Hans de Goede wrote: > Which also makes me wonder about the same change for the mr97310a, is that > cam already supported in a released kernel ? > > If not we MUST make sure we get this change in before 2.6.29 final, if it > is I'm afraid we cannot make these changes. In that case if we ever need to > header data we need to define a new PIXFMT for mr97310a with the header > data, and deprecate the old one. > I don't believe the driver has made it to any kernel yet. Even if it has, the user would need to have an unreleased version of libv4l. I think this change would inconvenience me and Theodore at most. Let's change it now. -Kyle