From 148af72009f0ad4b9af5fb3b0f518ac2d33986e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:11:23 -0200 Subject: V4L/DVB (6378a): Removal of VIDIOC_[G|S]_MPEGCOMP from feature-removal-schedule.txt Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 6b0f963f5379..9b447fb43c2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -14,18 +14,6 @@ Who: Jiri Slaby --------------------------- -What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP -When: October 2007 -Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are - not able to implement the wide variety of parameters that can be set - by hardware MPEG encoders. A new MPEG control mechanism was created - in kernel 2.6.18 that replaces these ioctls. See the V4L2 specification - (section 1.9: Extended controls) for more information on this topic. -Who: Hans Verkuil and - Mauro Carvalho Chehab - ---------------------------- - What: dev->power.power_state When: July 2007 Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing -- cgit v1.2.3 From 11a5a10e0adec22e535dd1e76e5c8a1b265692f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:32:36 -0200 Subject: V4L/DVB (6378b): Updates info about the removal of V4L1 at feature-removal-schedule.txt Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 9b447fb43c2e..6bb9be54ab76 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ Who: David Miller --------------------------- What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. -When: December 2006 -Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h -Check: include/linux/video_decoder.h -Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 +When: December 2008 +Files: include/linux/video_decoder.h include/linux/videodev.h +Check: include/linux/video_decoder.h include/linux/videodev.h +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. @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 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 + Compatibility ioctls will be provided, for a while, via + v4l1-compat module. +Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3