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>

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+Why:    The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes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>