On Monday 09 March 2009 12:08:39 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, wk wrote:
> > Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >> Hi Mauro,
> >>
> >> I noticed that there is an ancient V4L2 spec in our tree in the
> >> v4l/API directory. Is that spec used in any way? I don't think so, so
> >> I suggest that it is removed.
>
> OK.
>
> >> The V4L1 spec that is there should probably be moved to the v4l2-spec
> >> directory as that is where people would look for it. We can just keep
> >> it there for reference.
>
> Nah. Let's just strip and point to some place where V4L1 doc is
> available, adding some warning that the API is outdated and will be
> removed from kernel soon.
I don't think we should remove the doc from the repo until all drivers are
converted to v4l2.
> >> The documentation on www.linuxtv.org is also out of date. How are we
> >> going to update that?
>
> Make a proposal. I'll then updade it acordingly.
Can you just update it with the latest version compiled from v4l-dvb?
> >> I think that a good schedule would be right after a kernel merge
> >> window closes. The spec at that moment is the spec for that new kernel
> >> and that's a good moment to update the website.
Updating it whenever a merge window closes seems to make sense to me, so I
propose that we do that.
> >> The current spec is really old, though, and should be updated asap.
> >>
> >> Note that the specs from the daily build are always available from
> >> www.xs4all.nl/~hverkuil/spec. I've modified the build to upload the
> >> dvbapi.pdf as well.
>
> Maybe we can add a script to daily update at linuxtv.org for the specs as
> well.
That would be a good plan.
Regards,
Hans
> > Wouldn't it make sense to merge both apis, v4l2 and dvb together?
> >
> > - dvb api is completely outdated, would be good to be rewritten anyway.
> > - v4l2 and dvb share the same hg
> > - v4l2 and dvb share the same wiki
> > - a lot of developers are active in both topics
> > - any person interested in video and tv could be directed to the same
> > file
> >
> > Just some thoughts to the topic..
>
> I think so. The better would be to convert DVB api to docbook (as used by
> all other kernel documents), and add a developers document for the kernel
> API for both at the kernel documentation structure).
>
> However, this is a huge task that someone should volunteer for doing,
> otherwise, it won't happen.
>
> Cheers,
> Mauro
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Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG
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