From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp1.oregonstate.edu ([128.193.15.35]:42364 "EHLO smtp1.oregonstate.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933042Ab0CLW0s (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:26:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4B9ABE3C.6010909@onid.orst.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:20:44 -0800 From: Michael Akey MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Verkuil CC: Devin Heitmueller , Linux Media Mailing List , Hans de Goede Subject: Re: Remaining drivers that aren't V4L2? References: <829197381003121211l469c30bfjba077cea028bf680@mail.gmail.com> <201003122242.06508.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <201003122242.06508.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Friday 12 March 2010 21:11:49 Devin Heitmueller wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I know some months ago, there was some discussion about a few drivers >> which were stragglers and had not been converted from V4L to V4L2. >> >> Do we have a current list of driver which still haven't been converted? >> > > These drivers are still v4l1: > > arv > bw-qcam > c-qcam > cpia_pp > cpia_usb > ov511 > se401 > stradis > stv680 > usbvideo > w9966 > > Some of these have counterparts in gspca these days so possibly some drivers > can be removed by now. Hans, can you point those out? > > arv, bw-qcam, c-qcam, cpia_pp and stradis can probably be moved to staging > and if no one steps up then they can be dropped altogether. > Does this mean that the bw-qcam driver will be removed in future revisions or does this mean it will just never be updated to v4l2? > According to my notes I should be able to test cpia_usb. I would have to > verify that, though. I think it is only used in a USB microscope. It is > effectively a webcam. I can also test usbvideo (USB 1 TV capture device). > The latter is probably the most important driver that needs converting, > because I think these are not uncommon. > > However, I have no time to work on such a driver conversion. But if someone > is seriously willing to put time and effort in that, then I am willing to > mail the hardware. > > >> I started doing some more tvtime work last night, and I would *love* >> to drop V4L support (and *only* support V4L2 devices), since it would >> make the code much cleaner, more reliable, and easier to test. >> >> If there are only a few obscure webcams remaining, then I'm willing to >> tell those users that they have to stick with whatever old version of >> tvtime they've been using since the last release four years ago. >> > > To my knowledge the usbvideo driver is probably the least obscure device > that is still using V4L1. > > Regards, > > Hans > >