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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Remove USE="v4l2" and rename the consumers to plain USE="v4l"?
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:01:52
Message-Id: 1305885748.17955.14.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Remove USE="v4l2" and rename the consumers to plain USE="v4l"? by Samuli Suominen
1 On T, 2011-05-17 at 03:48 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > And after the bugs are mostly (or all) dealt with, I suggest we remove
3 > USE="v4l2" and make USE="v4l" mean:
4 >
5 > "Enable support for video4linux (with or without userspace library libv4l)"
6 >
7 > And rename the pkgs using USE="v4l2" to USE="v4l". Since there will be
8 > only video4linux version 2, using libv4l or without (or possibly using
9 > libv4l compability layer for libv4l1). But no more straight up version
10 > 1 support since videodev.h is gone since Linux 2.6.38
11
12 I think for a while people would read "v4l" as "v4l1", as v4l did denote
13 version 1. Any reason not to congregate everything to USE="v4l2"
14 instead?
15
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17 Mart Raudsepp