From 96322b80e29802d2d3087987f6dc4e5aa19df64b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:26:28 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] V4L/DVB: Deprecate stradis driver The driver author seems to not worked on this driver since its conversion from 2.2 to 2.4. Nobody is known to have a stradis hardware for testing. As it still uses V4L1 API, BKL and probably some other old stuff, someone would need to work on it to preserve the driver. Instead of investing time and efforts to keep porting it to work with new API's, it seems better to just drop the driver. So, let's move it to drivers/staging and label it to die at 2.6.38, if nobody cares enough to port parallel port support to gspca or to create a new driver that uses the same gspca-cpia sub-driver. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 4 ++-- drivers/media/video/Kconfig | 8 -------- drivers/media/video/Makefile | 1 - drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 ++ drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig | 7 +++++++ drivers/staging/stradis/Makefile | 3 +++ drivers/staging/stradis/TODO | 6 ++++++ drivers/{media/video => staging/stradis}/stradis.c | 0 9 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/staging/stradis/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/staging/stradis/TODO rename drivers/{media/video => staging/stradis}/stradis.c (100%) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 4487225..d87ee17 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab What: Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API When: kernel 2.6.38 -Files: drivers/staging/cpia/* -Check: drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c +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 diff --git a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig index 4f21ef8..75404fc 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/media/video/Kconfig @@ -609,14 +609,6 @@ config VIDEO_VINO Say Y here to build in support for the Vino video input system found on SGI Indy machines. -config VIDEO_STRADIS - tristate "Stradis 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCI && VIDEO_V4L1 && VIRT_TO_BUS - help - Say Y here to enable support for the Stradis 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video - driver for PCI. There is a product page at - . - source "drivers/media/video/zoran/Kconfig" config VIDEO_MEYE diff --git a/drivers/media/video/Makefile b/drivers/media/video/Makefile index b947160..118196c 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/Makefile +++ b/drivers/media/video/Makefile @@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_BWQCAM) += bw-qcam.o obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_W9966) += w9966.o obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_PMS) += pms.o obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_VINO) += vino.o -obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS) += stradis.o obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_MEYE) += meye.o obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134) += saa7134/ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88) += cx88/ diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig index 303c52c..078525c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/tm6000/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/cpia/Kconfig" +source "drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig" + source "drivers/staging/usbip/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/winbond/Kconfig" diff --git a/drivers/staging/Makefile b/drivers/staging/Makefile index ddcac24..057adca 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/Makefile +++ b/drivers/staging/Makefile @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_GO7007) += go7007/ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_CX25821) += cx25821/ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_TM6000) += tm6000/ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_CPIA) += cpia/ +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS) += stradis/ obj-$(CONFIG_LIRC_STAGING) += lirc/ obj-$(CONFIG_USB_IP_COMMON) += usbip/ obj-$(CONFIG_W35UND) += winbond/ diff --git a/drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 0000000..92e8911 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +config VIDEO_STRADIS + tristate "Stradis 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video driver (DEPRECATED)" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCI && VIDEO_V4L1 && VIRT_TO_BUS + help + Say Y here to enable support for the Stradis 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video + driver for PCI. There is a product page at + . diff --git a/drivers/staging/stradis/Makefile b/drivers/staging/stradis/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f1feab --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/stradis/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS) += stradis.o + +EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Idrivers/media/video diff --git a/drivers/staging/stradis/TODO b/drivers/staging/stradis/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f48150f --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/stradis/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This is an obsolete driver for ancient stradis hardware. +We couldn't find anyone with this hardware in order to port it to use V4L2. + +If nobody take care on it, the driver will be removed for 2.6.38. + +Please send patches to linux-media@vger.kernel.org diff --git a/drivers/media/video/stradis.c b/drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.c similarity index 100% rename from drivers/media/video/stradis.c rename to drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.c -- 2.7.4