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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3fef3444c76..c8c6daeefed 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -39,6 +39,17 @@ 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 672b92ef9f2..680da9e195d 100644 --- a/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig @@ -161,17 +161,12 @@ config IEEE1394_ETH1394 MCAP, therefore multicast support is significantly limited. config IEEE1394_DV1394 - tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support" + tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support (deprecated)" depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394 help - This driver allows you to transmit and receive DV (digital video) - streams on an OHCI-1394 card using a simple frame-oriented - interface. - - The user-space API for dv1394 is documented in dv1394.h. - - To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the - module will be called dv1394. + 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. config IEEE1394_RAWIO tristate "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c index d0e11c176c3..3bd78efd185 100644 --- a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c +++ b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c @@ -2579,6 +2579,10 @@ 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"); + cdev_init(&dv1394_cdev, &dv1394_fops); dv1394_cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE; kobject_set_name(&dv1394_cdev.kobj, "dv1394"); |