Re: [RFCv2 PATCH 12/12] Remove audio.h, video.h and osd.h.

[Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 24, 2011 18:08:05 Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>> Don't break existing Userspace APIs for no reason! It's OK to add the
>> new API, but - pretty please - don't just blindly remove audio.h and
>> video.h. They are in use since many years by av7110, out-of-tree drivers
>> *and more importantly* by applications. Yes, I know, you'd like to see
>> those out-of-tree drivers merged, but it isn't possible for many
>> reasons. And even if they were merged, you'd say "Port them and your
>> apps to V4L". No! That's not an option.
>
> I'm not breaking anything. All apps will still work.
>
> One option (and it depends on whether people like it or not) is to have
> audio.h, video.h and osd.h just include av7110.h and add a #warning
> that these headers need to be replaced by the new av7110.h.


That won't work with other non av7110 hardware.
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