Because V4L1 was completly removed from the kernel in 2.6.38. See e.g.

08af245d ([media] V4L: remove V4L1 compatibility mode).

Cc: Tomas Winkler <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Thomas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/easycap/README |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/easycap/README b/drivers/staging/easycap/README
index cd55eea..08f649d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/easycap/README
+++ b/drivers/staging/easycap/README
@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ hardware, but as yet it has actually been tested on only a 
few of these.
 I have been unable to test and calibrate the S-video input myself because I
 do not possess any equipment with S-video output.
 
-This driver does not understand the V4L1 IOCTL commands.
-
 
 UDEV RULES
 ----------
-- 
1.7.6.rc1

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