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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-12-27 11:14:52 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-12-29 08:17:12 -0200
commit1035758d5bdcd6c2f7308a35185f1d6f3b6b5443 (patch)
treedc7645dff1afe87671add84315b4d24982fa0b71 /Documentation
parent0334c8a52a8578f7aef501a14f78004f931efe20 (diff)
[media] feature_removal_schedule.txt: mark VIDIOC_*_OLD ioctls to die
There are some old broken definitions of ioctl's, where the read/write arguments were marked wrong. The last one were added on 2.6.6 kernel. Remove them, in order to cleanup some copy_from_user/copy_to_user logic done inside V4L core. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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@@ -112,6 +112,27 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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+What: Video4Linux: Remove obsolete ioctl's
+When: kernel 2.6.39
+Files: include/media/videodev2.h
+Why: Some ioctl's were defined wrong on 2.6.2 and 2.6.6, using the wrong
+ type of R/W arguments. They were fixed, but the old ioctl names are
+ still there, maintained to avoid breaking binary compatibility:
+ #define VIDIOC_OVERLAY_OLD _IOWR('V', 14, int)
+ #define VIDIOC_S_PARM_OLD _IOW('V', 22, struct v4l2_streamparm)
+ #define VIDIOC_S_CTRL_OLD _IOW('V', 28, struct v4l2_control)
+ #define VIDIOC_G_AUDIO_OLD _IOWR('V', 33, struct v4l2_audio)
+ #define VIDIOC_G_AUDOUT_OLD _IOWR('V', 49, struct v4l2_audioout)
+ #define VIDIOC_CROPCAP_OLD _IOR('V', 58, struct v4l2_cropcap)
+ There's no sense on preserving those forever, as it is very doubtful
+ that someone would try to use a such old binary with a modern kernel.
+ Removing them will allow us to remove some magic done at the V4L ioctl
+ handler.
+
+Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: sys_sysctl
When: September 2010
Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL