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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-30 10:43:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-30 10:43:08 +0200 |
| commit | 169ed55bd30305b933f52bfab32a58671d44ab68 (patch) | |
| tree | 32e280957474f458901abfce16fa2a1687ef7497 /Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 | |
| parent | 3d7851b3cdd43a734e5cc4c643fd886ab28ad4d5 (diff) | |
| parent | 45f81b1c96d9793e47ce925d257ea693ce0b193e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'tip/perf/jump-label-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 b/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c39c25aee77 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +What: video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire) +Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + /dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire + controller, which were used for isochronous I/O. It was added as an + alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had + performance issues in its first generation. Any video1394 user had + to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide + asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration. + Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of + firewire-core. + +Users: + libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI + users) |