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

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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:21:00 -0200
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
To:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...net.be>
Cc:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>, video4linux-list@...hat.com,
	"v4l-dvb maintainer list" <v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org>,
	"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davinci-linux-open-source-bounces@...ux.davincidsp.com
Subject: Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-ng

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