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Commit 96322b80 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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V4L/DVB: Deprecate stradis driver 



The driver author seems to not worked on this driver since its conversion
from 2.2 to 2.4. Nobody is known to have a stradis hardware for testing. As
it still uses V4L1 API, BKL and probably some other old stuff, someone would
need to work on it to preserve the driver. Instead of investing time and
efforts to keep porting it to work with new API's, it seems better to just
drop the driver.

So, let's move it to drivers/staging and label it to die at 2.6.38, if nobody
cares enough to port parallel port support to gspca or to create a new driver
that uses the same gspca-cpia sub-driver.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
parent 7af97eff

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> 


What:	Video4Linux obsolete drivers using V4L1 API

When:	kernel 2.6.38

Files:	drivers/staging/cpia/*

Check:	drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c

Files:	drivers/staging/cpia/* drivers/staging/stradis/*

Check:	drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.c

Why:	There are some drivers still using V4L1 API, despite all efforts we've done

	to migrate. Those drivers are for obsolete hardware that the old maintainer

	didn't care (or not have the hardware anymore), and that no other developer

drivers/media/video/Kconfig

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@@ -609,14 +609,6 @@ config VIDEO_VINO 
	  Say Y here to build in support for the Vino video input system found

	  on SGI Indy machines.



config VIDEO_STRADIS

	tristate "Stradis 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video driver  (EXPERIMENTAL)"

	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCI && VIDEO_V4L1 && VIRT_TO_BUS

	help

	  Say Y here to enable support for the Stradis 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video

	  driver for PCI.  There is a product page at

	  <http://www.stradis.com/>.



source "drivers/media/video/zoran/Kconfig"



config VIDEO_MEYE

drivers/media/video/Makefile

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@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_BWQCAM) += bw-qcam.o 
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_W9966) += w9966.o

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_PMS) += pms.o

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_VINO) += vino.o

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS) += stradis.o

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_MEYE) += meye.o

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134) += saa7134/

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88) += cx88/

drivers/staging/Kconfig

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@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/tm6000/Kconfig" 


source "drivers/staging/cpia/Kconfig"



source "drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig"



source "drivers/staging/usbip/Kconfig"



source "drivers/staging/winbond/Kconfig"

drivers/staging/Makefile

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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_GO7007) += go7007/ 
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_CX25821)	+= cx25821/

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_TM6000)	+= tm6000/

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_CPIA)	+= cpia/

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS)	+= stradis/

obj-$(CONFIG_LIRC_STAGING)	+= lirc/

obj-$(CONFIG_USB_IP_COMMON)	+= usbip/

obj-$(CONFIG_W35UND)		+= winbond/