From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:33587 "EHLO mail-wi0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751311AbbINHR0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2015 03:17:26 -0400 Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so127728373wic.0 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Time for a v4l-utils 1.8.0 release To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab References: <55491541.1040709@googlemail.com> <20150505172235.4bef50eb@recife.lan> Cc: Linux Media Mailing List , Hans de Goede , Hans Verkuil , Laurent Pinchart , Sakari Ailus From: Gregor Jasny Message-ID: <55F67483.4030709@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:17:23 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150505172235.4bef50eb@recife.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On 05/05/15 22:22, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Tue, 05 May 2015 21:08:49 +0200 > Gregor Jasny escreveu: > >> Hello, >> >> It's already more than half a year since the last v4l-utils release. Do >> you have any pending commits or objections? If no one vetos I'd like to >> release this weekend. > > There is are a additions I'd like to add to v4l-utils: > > 1) on DVB, ioctls may fail with -EAGAIN. Some parts of the libdvbv5 don't > handle it well. I made one quick hack for it, but didn't have time to > add a timeout to avoid an endless loop. The patch is simple. I just need > some time to do that; > > 2) The Media Controller control util (media-ctl) doesn't support DVB. > > The patchset adding DVB support on media-ctl is ready, and I'm merging > right now, and matches what's there at Kernel version 4.1-rc1 and upper. > > Yet, Laurent and Sakari want to do some changes at the Kernel API, before > setting it into a stone at Kernel v 4.1 release. > > This has to happen on the next 4 weeks. > > So, I suggest to postpone the release of 1.8.0 until the end of this month. I'd like to release v4l-utils 1.8.0 during the upcoming weekend. Please postpone any disruptive fixes until the release has been tagged. Thanks, Gregor