Linuxolator v4l2/dvb - trying to collect data about latest skype

[Juergen Lock]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:55:58AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> (from Sun, 24 Apr 2011  
> 16:03:50 +0200):
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 02:18:31PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >>  I now have finshed seperating the dvb part of the patches out into
> >> a port:
> >>
> >> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/linux_dvbwrapper-kmod.shar
> >>
> >> and made new src patches that now contain the v4l2 bits only:
> >>
> >> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/linux-v4l2-8-test.patch
> >> 	(for 8, this is what I tested)
> >>
> >> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/linux-v4l2-test.patch
> >> 	(for head, untested)
> >>
> >>  The only outstanding issues I now know of are,
> >>
> >> a) netchild suggested I try an older videodev2.h from Linux 2.6.17,
> >>    I'm not sure that's necessary but mainly I want to know more
> >>    about the second issue first before trying it:
> >>
> > I now did that anyway and found at least skype and flash with my
> > camera seem to behave the same as before:
> >
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/linux-v4l2-2.6.17-8-test.patch
> > 	(for 8)
> >
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/linux-v4l2-2.6.17-test.patch
> > 	(for head, again untested)
> >
> >  This loses a few features tho that _may_ be useful for other apps
> > or later versions so I'm still not 100% sure this is a good idea...
> 
> Thanks for testing. I try to get some time "soonish" (probably not  
> today) to commit this. After it is in the tree, I have a look at  
> updating the v4l* headers to the current version.
> 
> The reason why I want to do it this way is, that in later version the  
> v4l* headers are a little bit reorganized and I do not want to  
> introduce some regressions (code or license).

Sounds like a plan! :)

 Thanx,
	Juergen