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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Remove USE="v4l2" and rename the consumers
From:       Mart Raudsepp <leio () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2011-05-20 10:02:28
Message-ID: 1305885748.17955.14.camel () localhost
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On T, 2011-05-17 at 03:48 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> 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

I think for a while people would read "v4l" as "v4l1", as v4l did denote
version 1. Any reason not to congregate everything to USE="v4l2"
instead?

-- 
Mart Raudsepp


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