Re: [PATCH 0/6] V4L1 cleanups and videodev.h removal

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 27-12-2010 10:45, Hans Verkuil escreveu:
> On Monday, December 27, 2010 13:33:52 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Em 27-12-2010 10:21, Hans Verkuil escreveu:
>>> On Monday, December 27, 2010 12:38:48 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>> Now that all hard work to remove V4L1 happened, it doesn't make
>>>> sense on keeping videodev.h just because of two obsoleted drivers.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it is also time to mark the videodev2.h _OLD ioctls for removal in
>>> 2.6.39?
>>>
>>> If we are getting rid of old stuff anyway, then this will also be a nice
>>> cleanup.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we can even delete it without marking it for removal. After all,
>>> removing it will only affect binaries compiled against a *really* old kernel
>>> (I suspect 2.5.something). Anything that has been recompiled will automatically
>>> use the correct ioctls.
>>
>> We can't just remove the _OLD, as they're used internally, in order to handle
>> those old binaries. I think that not all come from 2.5 times. So, the better is to
>> mark them to be removed for .39.
> 
> I double checked and they were introduced in 2.6.2 except for CROPCAP_OLD which
> was introduced in 2.6.6.

Thanks for the research.
> 
> Do you want me to mark them for removal or will you?

I did it. Just sent to the ML. I'm basically with my hands tight, as kernel's Patchwork
is not working today, so I have some time to do some basic cleanup, while waiting for
someone to restart patchwork service.

Cheers,
Mauro