From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38806 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752606AbZCEGzC (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:55:02 -0500 Message-ID: <49AF78AC.3000605@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:01:00 +0100 From: Hans de Goede MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle Guinn CC: kilgota@banach.math.auburn.edu, Jean-Francois Moine , linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC on proposed patches to mr97310a.c for gspca and v4l References: <20090217200928.1ae74819@free.fr> <200903032050.13915.elyk03@gmail.com> <49AE3E2F.70905@redhat.com> <200903041933.29491.elyk03@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200903041933.29491.elyk03@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Kyle Guinn wrote: > 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. > +1 Regards, Hans