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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-09-30 08:25:42 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-10-21 01:06:13 -0200 |
| commit | 7af97effb3f5a374482179aca490b5038de56fa6 (patch) | |
| tree | 70baf9a5fd787e44174bd738421447d30cc31e86 /Documentation | |
| parent | da497e30c161963c413e259438b1b54672055b11 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7af97effb3f5a374482179aca490b5038de56fa6.tar.gz linux-7af97effb3f5a374482179aca490b5038de56fa6.tar.xz | |
V4L/DVB: Deprecate cpia driver (used for parallel port webcams)
cpia driver were re-written inside gspca driver, for USB devices. The only
functionality that were not migrated is the support for parallel port,
as:
1) the developer didn't find any hardware;
2) it doesn't seem important to keep support for a parallel port webcam,
as this is an obsolete technology;
3) the changes at gspca for it to work with parallel port would be very large;
4) this driver still uses BKL.
So, let's move it to drivers/staging and label it to die at 2.6.38, if nobody
cares enough to port parallel port support to gspca or to create a new driver
that uses the same gspca-cpia sub-driver.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 2372fb221969..448722555648 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> --------------------------- What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and from Video devices. -When: July 2009 +When: kernel 2.6.38 Files: include/linux/videodev.h Check: include/linux/videodev.h Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 @@ -116,6 +116,21 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> --------------------------- +What: Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API +When: kernel 2.6.38 +Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* +Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c +Why: There are some drivers still using V4L1 API, despite all efforts we've done + to migrate. Those drivers are for obsolete hardware that the old maintainer + didn't care (or not have the hardware anymore), and that no other developer + could find any hardware to buy. They probably have no practical usage today, + and people with such old hardware could probably keep using an older version + of the kernel. Those drivers will be moved to staging on 2.6.37 and, if nobody + care enough to port and test them with V4L2 API, they'll be removed on 2.6.38. +Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> + +--------------------------- + What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL |