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Samuli Suominen posted on Tue, 17 May 2011 03:48:23 +0300 as excerpted: |
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> First of all, it's disappointing how little the packages in the |
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> linux-headers-2.6.38 tracker[1] intrest people. |
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> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/359595 |
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Indeed. I finally decided to try to get the netbook's webcam running the |
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other day. With kernel 2.6.38's lack of v4l1, it's a serious webcam |
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package wasteland out there! (luvcview, hasciicam... that was about it.) |
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=:^( |
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luvcview demonstrated that it was working, tho, and it was quite apparent |
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I had to wait for the 2.6.38 stabilization to take care of the others |
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before I tried them. But /how/ long has this removal been in progress and |
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the apps are /still/ dependent on videodev.h? Disappointing, to say the |
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least. Guess dealing with it's unavoidable, now. |
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> Planning on masking some of the low hanging fruits from the tracker. |
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> And after the bugs are mostly (or all) dealt with, I suggest we remove |
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> USE="v4l2" and make USE="v4l" mean: |
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> "Enable support for video4linux (with or without userspace library |
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> libv4l)" |
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> And rename the pkgs using USE="v4l2" to USE="v4l". Since there will be |
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> only video4linux version 2, using libv4l or without (or possibly using |
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> libv4l compability layer for libv4l1). But no more straight up version |
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> 1 support since videodev.h is gone since Linux 2.6.38 |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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