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@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and from Video devices.
-When: July 2009
+When: kernel 2.6.38
Files: include/linux/videodev.h
Check: include/linux/videodev.h
Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
@@ -116,6 +116,21 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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+What: Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API
+When: kernel 2.6.38
+Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* drivers/staging/stradis/*
+Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.c
+Why: There are some drivers still using V4L1 API, despite all efforts we've done
+ to migrate. Those drivers are for obsolete hardware that the old maintainer
+ didn't care (or not have the hardware anymore), and that no other developer
+ could find any hardware to buy. They probably have no practical usage today,
+ and people with such old hardware could probably keep using an older version
+ of the kernel. Those drivers will be moved to staging on 2.6.37 and, if nobody
+ care enough to port and test them with V4L2 API, they'll be removed on 2.6.38.
+Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: sys_sysctl
When: September 2010
Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
@@ -470,29 +485,6 @@ When: April 2011
Why: Superseded by xt_CT
Who: Netfilter developer team <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
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-
-What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support
-When: 2.6.35
-Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
- include/linux/videotext.h
-Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes
- for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support.
- Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249
- has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware
- that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically
- supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked.
-
- In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there
- are no applications actually implementing this API.
-
- The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really
- like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely
- event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality
- provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build
- around the sliced VBI API instead.
-Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
-
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What: IRQF_DISABLED