Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab...

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / feature-removal-schedule.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Who:  Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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 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>
 
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+What:  Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API
+When:  kernel 2.6.38
+Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* drivers/staging/stradis/*
+Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.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
@@ -470,29 +485,6 @@ When:      April 2011
 Why:   Superseded by xt_CT
 Who:   Netfilter developer team <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
 
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-
-What:  video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support
-When:  2.6.35
-Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
-       include/linux/videotext.h
-Why:   The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes
-       for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support.
-       Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249
-       has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware
-       that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically
-       supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked.
-
-       In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there
-       are no applications actually implementing this API.
-
-       The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really
-       like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely
-       event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality
-       provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build
-       around the sliced VBI API instead.
-Who:   Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
-
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 What:  IRQF_DISABLED