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