V4L/DVB: feature-removal: announce videotext.h removal
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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@ -589,3 +589,26 @@ Why: Useful in 2003, implementation is a hack.
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Generally invoked by accident today.
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Seen as doing more harm than good.
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Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support
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When: 2.6.35
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Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
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include/linux/videotext.h
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Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes
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for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support.
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Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249
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has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware
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that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically
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supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked.
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In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there
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are no applications actually implementing this API.
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The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really
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like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely
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event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality
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provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build
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around the sliced VBI API instead.
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Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
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