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| author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2008-10-13 07:38:03 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2008-10-17 17:20:20 -0300 |
| commit | 7b31b57a37ab694b9693a0359bf8ed0967188533 (patch) | |
| tree | d8733e2944bfe219f19aaf9f99f5b33806299ff0 /include/media | |
| parent | 23848b655ab5fc2fe88ef99e90ad8e4c41304d76 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7b31b57a37ab694b9693a0359bf8ed0967188533.tar.bz2 | |
V4L/DVB (9209): v4l2: add comment to the v4l2-i2c-drv headers.
Looking at these headers as they appear in the kernel makes you
wonder why it is done that way. Refer to the v4l-dvb repository
where the full unstripped header can be found to understand the
reasoning behind this.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/media')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv-legacy.h | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv.h | 11 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv-legacy.h b/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv-legacy.h index 975ffbf4e2c5..e65dd9d84e8b 100644 --- a/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv-legacy.h +++ b/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv-legacy.h @@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ +/* NOTE: the full version of this header is in the v4l-dvb repository + * and allows v4l i2c drivers to be compiled on older kernels as well. + * The version of this header as it appears in the kernel is a stripped + * version (without all the backwards compatibility stuff) and so it + * looks a bit odd. + * + * If you look at the full version then you will understand the reason + * for introducing this header since you really don't want to have all + * the tricky backwards compatibility code in each and every i2c driver. + */ + struct v4l2_i2c_driver_data { const char * const name; int driverid; diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv.h b/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv.h index 40ecef29801d..efdc8bf27f87 100644 --- a/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv.h +++ b/include/media/v4l2-i2c-drv.h @@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ +/* NOTE: the full version of this header is in the v4l-dvb repository + * and allows v4l i2c drivers to be compiled on older kernels as well. + * The version of this header as it appears in the kernel is a stripped + * version (without all the backwards compatibility stuff) and so it + * looks a bit odd. + * + * If you look at the full version then you will understand the reason + * for introducing this header since you really don't want to have all + * the tricky backwards compatibility code in each and every i2c driver. + */ + #ifndef __V4L2_I2C_DRV_H__ #define __V4L2_I2C_DRV_H__ |