diff options
| author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2010-03-22 05:43:08 -0300 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-05-06 19:20:50 -0300 |
| commit | b75396a4ea473a2cd4f2fb99a81b2289265a8021 (patch) | |
| tree | b4ed92e073bc2ebe098afe085894b0c7849b21c4 | |
| parent | 6a4f0623a4ebe46c743d213db808067553953913 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b75396a4ea473a2cd4f2fb99a81b2289265a8021.tar.gz lwn-b75396a4ea473a2cd4f2fb99a81b2289265a8021.zip | |
V4L/DVB: feature-removal: announce videotext.h removal
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index ed511af0f79a..05df0b7514b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -589,3 +589,26 @@ Why: Useful in 2003, implementation is a hack. Generally invoked by accident today. Seen as doing more harm than good. Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> + +---------------------------- + +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drivers/media/video/saa5249.c + include/linux/videotext.h +Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes + for many years.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> |