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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-11 02:24:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-11 02:24:36 +0200 |
| commit | c3474be4ddcae0256a13cbbe35d849c153c4ec4b (patch) | |
| tree | 03a19c106dea8c60a26eff45444a290df330c98a | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rol... (diff) | |
| parent | ieee1394: change deprecation status of dv1394 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
ieee1394: change deprecation status of dv1394
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/dv1394 | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c | 4 |
4 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/dv1394 b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/dv1394 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2ee36864ca10 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/dv1394 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +What: dv1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-DV I/O support" for FireWire) +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + New application development should use raw1394 + userspace libraries + instead, notably libiec61883 which is functionally equivalent. + +Users: + ffmpeg/libavformat (used by a variety of media players) + dvgrab v1.x (replaced by dvgrab2 on top of raw1394 and resp. libraries) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0bc8b0b2e103..19b4c96b2a49 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -39,17 +39,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> --------------------------- -What: dv1394 driver (CONFIG_IEEE1394_DV1394) -When: June 2007 -Why: Replaced by raw1394 + userspace libraries, notably libiec61883. This - shift of application support has been indicated on www.linux1394.org - and developers' mailinglists for quite some time. Major applications - have been converted, with the exception of ffmpeg and hence xine. - Piped output of dvgrab2 is a partial equivalent to dv1394. -Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> - ---------------------------- - What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices. When: December 2006 Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig b/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig index b8a47342cd2c..cd84a55ecf20 100644 --- a/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig @@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ config IEEE1394_DV1394 tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support (deprecated)" depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394 help - The dv1394 driver will be removed from Linux in a future release. - Its functionality is now provided by raw1394 together with libraries - such as libiec61883. + The dv1394 driver is unsupported and may be removed from Linux in a + future release. Its functionality is now provided by raw1394 together + with libraries such as libiec61883. config IEEE1394_RAWIO tristate "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c index dee9529aa8e7..026e38face5c 100644 --- a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c +++ b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c @@ -2564,8 +2564,8 @@ static int __init dv1394_init_module(void) int ret; printk(KERN_WARNING - "WARNING: The dv1394 driver is unsupported and will be removed " - "from Linux soon. Use raw1394 instead.\n"); + "NOTE: The dv1394 driver is unsupported and may be removed in a " + "future Linux release. Use raw1394 instead.\n"); cdev_init(&dv1394_cdev, &dv1394_fops); dv1394_cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE; |