On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Thursday, November 24, 2011 18:08:05 Andreas Oberritter wrote: >> Don't break existing Userspace APIs for no reason! It's OK to add the >> new API, but - pretty please - don't just blindly remove audio.h and >> video.h. They are in use since many years by av7110, out-of-tree drivers >> *and more importantly* by applications. Yes, I know, you'd like to see >> those out-of-tree drivers merged, but it isn't possible for many >> reasons. And even if they were merged, you'd say "Port them and your >> apps to V4L". No! That's not an option. > > I'm not breaking anything. All apps will still work. > > One option (and it depends on whether people like it or not) is to have > audio.h, video.h and osd.h just include av7110.h and add a #warning > that these headers need to be replaced by the new av7110.h.
That won't work with other non av7110 hardware. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
