Re: Upcoming v4l-utils 1.6.0 release

[Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>]

Hello,

On 27/09/14 13:54, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:57:11 +0200
> Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com> escreveu:
>> As far as I understand the service_location feature should work but is
>> an extension to the standard. Does it harm if we keep it until we have
>> something better in place to handle extensions?
>>
>> The service list descriptor feature is unimplemented (and thus broken).
>> Would it help if we return -1 from dvb_desc_service_list_init to reflect
>> that fact or does it break something else? But I'd keep the symbol in
>> the library to maintain ABI compatibility.

> I would actually prefer if we could get rid of those two broken
> descriptors on some release, and to re-add them only when they're
> actually working.

I have sent a patch series to remove the public headers of this two
descriptors and provide stubs to maintain SONAME compatibility.

Could you please ACK it?

Thanks,
Gregor