2005-11-07 03:16:48

by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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Subject: [Patch 19/20] V4L removal schedule for V4L1 API

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

- States a date for removing V4L1 API

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

--- hg.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ hg/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -95,3 +95,18 @@ Why: This interface has been obsoleted b
to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue
instead of the current 'libipq'.
Who: Harald Welte <[email protected]>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
+When: July 2006
+Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
+ series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough
+ means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is
+ already available on the main drivers and should be used instead.
+ Newer drivers should use v4l_compat_translate_ioctl function to handle
+ old calls, replacing to newer ones.
+ Decoder iocts are using internally to allow video drivers to
+ communicate with video decoders. This should also be improved to allow
+ V4L2 calls being translated into compatible internal ioctls.
+Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>






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