On Sunday 09 October 2005 22:29, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Sunday 09 October 2005 22:18, Adam Forsyth wrote:
> > Well, for those of us who use FC4 and want to use the kernel from
> > redhat (think quite a few people), it will be at least a month after
> > 2.6.14 is released before we can upgrade, so your tester base is
> > likely to shrink for a while.
>
> I know. But 0.5 is not about new features or bug fixes. In fact, I think
> that ivtv changes should go into the 0.4 branch first and ported forward to
> 0.5. Changes made in 0.5 to the supporting drivers to make them ready for
> inclusion in v4l could to some extent be backported to 0.4.
>
> I see 0.5 as a transition period. No nice shiny new features but work that
> has to be done to make it possible that with 2.6.x in Fedora Core 6 you no
> longer need to download and compile ivtv, instead it's part of the
> distribution.
Based on recent developments on v4l I think we should go with the initial
idea: build v4l, then ivtv. In the meantime we keep 0.4 up to date with bug
fixes and new features, at least for the duration of the 0.5 development
series.
Hans
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