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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:55:03 +0100
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
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	Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>
Subject: Re: Removal of V4L1 drivers
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Sender: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@gaivota>

Hi,

On 12/24/2010 07:58 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Friday, December 24, 2010 15:47:57 Hans de Goede wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I think these two should be moved to staging for 2.6.38. And either removed or
> converted for 2.6.39.
>

Ok.

>> 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 .
>
> So these two can be removed in 2.6.38, right?

Right.

Regards,

Hans