On Saturday, December 25, 2010 10:18:20 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 24-12-2010 17:55, Hans de Goede escreveu:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 12/24/2010 07:58 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >> On Friday, December 24, 2010 15:47:57 Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On 12/24/2010 02:42 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>>> Hi Hans, Mauro,
> >>>>
> >>>> The se401, vicam, ibmcam and konicawc drivers are the only V4L1 drivers
> >>>> left in
> >>>> 2.6.37. The others are either converted or moved to staging (stradis and
> >>>> cpia),
> >>>> ready to be removed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hans, what is the status of those four drivers?
> >>>
> >>> se401:
> >>> I have hardware I have taken a look at the driver, converting it is a bit
> >>> of a pain because it uses a really ugly written statefull decompressor
> >>> inside
> >>> the kernel code. The cameras have an uncompressed mode too. I can start
> >>> doing
> >>> a conversion to / rewrite as gspca subdriver supporting only the
> >>> uncompressed
> >>> mode for now:
> >>>
> >>> vicam:
> >>> Devin Heitmueller (added to the CC) has one such a camera, which he still
> >>> needs
> >>> to get into my hands, once I have it I can convert the driver.
> >>
> >> I think these two should be moved to staging for 2.6.38. And either
> >> removed or
> >> converted for 2.6.39.
> >>
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> >>> ibmcam and konicawc:
> >>> Both drivers were converted by me recently and the new gspca subdrivers
> >>> for these
> >>> have been pulled by Mauro for 2.6.37 .
> >>
> >> So these two can be removed in 2.6.38, right?
> >
> > Right.
>
>
> OK, moving them to staging seems the best way to do it. Please, add a comment
> at
> Kconfig help that they use the legacy V4L1 API and may be removed from .39 if
> not
> converted to V4L2. Of course, the README file will also say that, maybe
> providing
> more details.
Thanks for your input! I'll work on this in the next few days.
Regards,
Hans
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Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco
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