Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-ng

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Tue Dec 02 2008 - 12:21:31 EST


On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:58:35 +0100
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Are you meaning marking this as experimental at Kconfig? This seems too
> > complex, since we'll need to test for some var on every driver that were
> > converted, providing two KABI options for each converted driver (the legacy
> > and the v4l2_device way). This doesn't seem to be a good idea, since will
> > add a lot of extra complexity to debug bugs.
>
> Not at the Kconfig level, just in the documentation (and possible headers).

Ah, ok. Good point.

> This is a work in progress. Hans wants the changes to go mainline to get
> broader testing, which is a valid reason, but I'd like to make sure people
> understand that more changes are coming.

Maybe instead we should have a TODO list somewhere with the programmed changes,
especially at the subsystem core.

Cheers,
Mauro
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