Re: [PATCH 00/13] Reduce the gap between DVBv5 API and the specs

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

Hi Andreas,

Em 09-06-2011 09:51, Andreas Oberritter escreveu:
> On 06/08/2011 11:38 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> - all AUDIO*, OSD* and VIDEO* are used only by av7110 and ivtv.
>>
>> - The CA* ioctls are used by core (although several are only implemented
>>   inside a few drivers);
> 
> All (or most) of these ioctls (except OSD, which AFAIR has been
> deprecated since v3) are used by out-of-tree drivers. av7110 and ivtv
> just happen to be the only in-tree drivers supporting audio and video
> decoders.

We should not care with drivers that will never be upstream. 

Those out-of-tree drivers are there just because they're still being prepared for
submission, or because the driver maintainers decided that they won't submit
upstream?

In the first case, I think we should try to merge those drivers first, 
before taking any decision about any API removal/change. So, maybe we can
postpone any API removal decision to kernel 3.2, in order to merge those
drivers upstream.

Thanks,
Mauro.