From 7af97effb3f5a374482179aca490b5038de56fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:25:42 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB: Deprecate cpia driver (used for parallel port webcams) cpia driver were re-written inside gspca driver, for USB devices. The only functionality that were not migrated is the support for parallel port, as: 1) the developer didn't find any hardware; 2) it doesn't seem important to keep support for a parallel port webcam, as this is an obsolete technology; 3) the changes at gspca for it to work with parallel port would be very large; 4) this driver still uses BKL. So, let's move it to drivers/staging and label it to die at 2.6.38, if nobody cares enough to port parallel port support to gspca or to create a new driver that uses the same gspca-cpia sub-driver. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 2372fb2..4487225 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Who: Pavel Machek --------------------------- 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 --------------------------- +What: Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API +When: kernel 2.6.38 +Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* +Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.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 + +--------------------------- + What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL -- cgit v1.1