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| author | Hans Verkuil | 2011-02-05 10:10:38 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 2011-03-21 20:32:12 -0300 |
| commit | 7ee40aadabd59b6cab60835f0ef9cdbe385df438 (patch) | |
| tree | 61e8856b6c2d159f489ec0147bedb190ac951fcf /Documentation | |
| parent | dae86ccbc3c185aebfc396e8e668aa3d73d748d8 (diff) | |
[media] v4l: removal of old, obsolete ioctls
Some ioctl's were defined wrong on 2.6.2 and 2.6.6, using the wrong
type of R/W arguments. They were fixed, but the old ioctl names are
still there, maintained to avoid breaking binary compatibility:
There's no sense on preserving those forever, as it is very doubtful
that someone would try to use a such old binary with a modern kernel.
Removing them will allow us to remove some magic done at the V4L ioctl
handler.
Note that any application compiled with a videodev2.h from 2.6.7 or later
will be using the correct ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 08e0df12df37..61fb823e5a95 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -97,27 +97,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> --------------------------- -What: Video4Linux: Remove obsolete ioctl's -When: kernel 2.6.39 -Files: include/media/videodev2.h -Why: Some ioctl's were defined wrong on 2.6.2 and 2.6.6, using the wrong - type of R/W arguments. They were fixed, but the old ioctl names are - still there, maintained to avoid breaking binary compatibility: - #define VIDIOC_OVERLAY_OLD _IOWR('V', 14, int) - #define VIDIOC_S_PARM_OLD _IOW('V', 22, struct v4l2_streamparm) - #define VIDIOC_S_CTRL_OLD _IOW('V', 28, struct v4l2_control) - #define VIDIOC_G_AUDIO_OLD _IOWR('V', 33, struct v4l2_audio) - #define VIDIOC_G_AUDOUT_OLD _IOWR('V', 49, struct v4l2_audioout) - #define VIDIOC_CROPCAP_OLD _IOR('V', 58, struct v4l2_cropcap) - There's no sense on preserving those forever, as it is very doubtful - that someone would try to use a such old binary with a modern kernel. - Removing them will allow us to remove some magic done at the V4L ioctl - handler. - -Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> - ---------------------------- - What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL |