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Subject: Re: OSS driver removal, 2nd round
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:27 +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> It's being written for v4l v1 api which is being phased out with
> 2.6.18.
> 
> They already have alsa working (and from the sound of it it's working
> great!).
> 
> v4l != alsa. :) 

A user visible API is being removed in 2.6.18?  Really?

I thought the rule was that 2.6 is a stable series therefore no
user-visible API changes were allowed.

Lee