From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38695 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752616Ab0LXOmG (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:42:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4D14B29D.3080002@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:47:57 +0100 From: Hans de Goede MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Verkuil CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Devin Heitmueller Subject: Re: Removal of V4L1 drivers References: <201012241442.39702.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <201012241442.39702.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Sender: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Hi, On 12/24/2010 02:42 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Hans, Mauro, > > The se401, vicam, ibmcam and konicawc drivers are the only V4L1 drivers left in > 2.6.37. The others are either converted or moved to staging (stradis and cpia), > ready to be removed. > > Hans, what is the status of those four drivers? se401: I have hardware I have taken a look at the driver, converting it is a bit of a pain because it uses a really ugly written statefull decompressor inside the kernel code. The cameras have an uncompressed mode too. I can start doing a conversion to / rewrite as gspca subdriver supporting only the uncompressed mode for now: vicam: Devin Heitmueller (added to the CC) has one such a camera, which he still needs to get into my hands, once I have it I can convert the driver. ibmcam and konicawc: Both drivers were converted by me recently and the new gspca subdrivers for these have been pulled by Mauro for 2.6.37 . > There are two drivers that need more work: stk-webcam has some controls under sysfs > that are enabled when CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT is set. These controls should be > rewritten as V4L2 controls. Hans, didn't you have hardware to test this driver? No I don't have any Syntek DC1125 based webcams. Regards, Hans