Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:40:06 +0100 (CET) From: Stefan Richter Subject: ieee1394: change deprecation status of dv1394 Nobody ported ffmpeg from dv1394 to rawiso yet, and there is no justification to remove dv1394 right now. Nevertheless, a strong deprecation of this ABI makes a lot of sense, especially as Kristian H's drivers shape up to be an attractive alternative to the existing ones. But we don't have a schedule at the moment. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter --- Documentation/ABI/obsolete/dv1394 | 9 +++++++++ Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 ----------- drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig | 6 +++--- drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) Index: linux/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/dv1394 =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ linux/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/dv1394 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +What: dv1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-DV I/O support" for FireWire) +Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net +Description: + New application development should use raw1394 + userspace libraries + instead, notably libiec61883 which is functionally equivalent. + +Users: + ffmpeg/libavformat (used by a variety of media players) + dvgrab v1.x (replaced by dvgrab2 on top of raw1394 and resp. libraries) Index: linux/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt =================================================================== --- linux.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ linux/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -39,17 +39,6 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy , Stef --------------------------- -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 , Stefan Richter - ---------------------------- - 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 Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig +++ linux/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig @@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ config IEEE1394_DV1394 tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support (deprecated)" depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394 help - 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. + The dv1394 driver is unsupported and may 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" Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c +++ linux/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c @@ -2564,8 +2564,8 @@ static int __init dv1394_init_module(voi int ret; printk(KERN_WARNING - "WARNING: The dv1394 driver is unsupported and will be removed " - "from Linux soon. Use raw1394 instead.\n"); + "NOTE: The dv1394 driver is unsupported and may be removed in a " + "future Linux release. Use raw1394 instead.\n"); cdev_init(&dv1394_cdev, &dv1394_fops); dv1394_cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;