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author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2010-03-22 04:43:08 -0400 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-05-06 18:20:50 -0400 |
commit | b75396a4ea473a2cd4f2fb99a81b2289265a8021 (patch) | |
tree | b4ed92e073bc2ebe098afe085894b0c7849b21c4 /Documentation | |
parent | 6a4f0623a4ebe46c743d213db808067553953913 (diff) |
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>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 23 |
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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. | |||
589 | Generally invoked by accident today. | 589 | Generally invoked by accident today. |
590 | Seen as doing more harm than good. | 590 | Seen as doing more harm than good. |
591 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 591 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> |
592 | |||
593 | ---------------------------- | ||
594 | |||
595 | What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support | ||
596 | When: 2.6.35 | ||
597 | Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c | ||
598 | include/linux/videotext.h | ||
599 | Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes | ||
600 | for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support. | ||
601 | Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249 | ||
602 | has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware | ||
603 | that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically | ||
604 | supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked. | ||
605 | |||
606 | In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there | ||
607 | are no applications actually implementing this API. | ||
608 | |||
609 | The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really | ||
610 | like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely | ||
611 | event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality | ||
612 | provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build | ||
613 | around the sliced VBI API instead. | ||
614 | Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | ||