Re: [PATCH] Remove ivtv ao and vo drivers
Alexander Strasser <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel |
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Committed as SVN r38148 @Ben: Thanks for the prompt reply! It's unfortunate you missed the previous mail. So I hope the last one didn't stress you too much. Best regards, Alexander On 2019-06-27 13:58 +0200, Benjamin Zores wrote: > Hi, > Just got the mail on today, the private one never reached me out (or get > spammed, whatever ...). > I think that time has come years ago already for IVTV support to get to and > end. > So feel free to get it removed. > Ben > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:27 PM Alexander Strasser <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > On 2019-05-22 02:16 +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote: > > > On 2019-05-21 20:26 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 05:21:16PM +0200, Alexander Strasser wrote: > > > > > IVTV support is for a long time available through Video4Linux. > > > > > The hardware can still be used through the v4l2 vo and ao drivers. > > > > > > > > > > There is still IVTV linux code in a VIDIX driver. This change > > > > > doesn't remove the IVTV remnants in the VIDIX source. > > > > > > > > I have no strong opinion, but maybe worth to (b)cc the > > > > authors/maintainers? > > > > I don't think we should remove code that has someone listed > > > > in MAINTAINERS without at least a minimal attempt to > > > > contact those people. > > > > > > Yes. Seems like the right thing to do. > > > > > > I didn't do it initially, because I think the code wasn't seriously > > > compiled for a long time. The ivtv kernel driver has been merged into > > > V4L in 2007. Don't know how long after that, older kernels with IVTV > > > were in use... > > > > > > Anyways, I contacted Ben privately. I will be waiting for some time > > > if I receive a reply. I don't think we are in a particular hurry to > > > remove that code. > > > > No news from Ben and a month has passed. > > > > I'm going to commit this patch soon. > > > > If there is someone around using a decoder card for tv output via ivtv > > vidix driver, I would remove the dead code there too. Just reply to me > > privately or here on the list; whatever you prefer. > > > > > > Alexander _______________________________________________ MPlayer-dev-eng mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng