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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 2372fb22196..44872255564 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> --------------------------- What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and from Video devices. -When: July 2009 +When: kernel 2.6.38 Files: include/linux/videodev.h Check: include/linux/videodev.h Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API during migration from 2.4 to 2.6 @@ -116,6 +116,21 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> --------------------------- +What: Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API +When: kernel 2.6.38 +Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* +Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c +Why: There are some drivers still using V4L1 API, despite all efforts we've done + to migrate. Those drivers are for obsolete hardware that the old maintainer + didn't care (or not have the hardware anymore), and that no other developer + could find any hardware to buy. They probably have no practical usage today, + and people with such old hardware could probably keep using an older version + of the kernel. Those drivers will be moved to staging on 2.6.37 and, if nobody + care enough to port and test them with V4L2 API, they'll be removed on 2.6.38. +Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> + +--------------------------- + What: sys_sysctl When: September 2010 Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL |