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@@ -599,3 +599,26 @@ Why: Useful in 2003, implementation is a hack. | |||
599 | Generally invoked by accident today. | 599 | Generally invoked by accident today. |
600 | Seen as doing more harm than good. | 600 | Seen as doing more harm than good. |
601 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 601 | Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> |
602 | |||
603 | ---------------------------- | ||
604 | |||
605 | What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support | ||
606 | When: 2.6.35 | ||
607 | Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c | ||
608 | include/linux/videotext.h | ||
609 | Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes | ||
610 | for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support. | ||
611 | Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249 | ||
612 | has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware | ||
613 | that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically | ||
614 | supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked. | ||
615 | |||
616 | In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there | ||
617 | are no applications actually implementing this API. | ||
618 | |||
619 | The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really | ||
620 | like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely | ||
621 | event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality | ||
622 | provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build | ||
623 | around the sliced VBI API instead. | ||
624 | Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | ||