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+What: dv1394 driver (CONFIG_IEEE1394_DV1394)
+When: June 2007
+Why: Replaced by raw1394 + userspace libraries, notably libiec61883. This
+ shift of application support has been indicated on www.linux1394.org
+ and developers' mailinglists for quite some time. Major applications
+ have been converted, with the exception of ffmpeg and hence xine.
+ Piped output of dvgrab2 is a partial equivalent to dv1394.
+Who: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When: December 2006
Why: V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
MCAP, therefore multicast support is significantly limited.
config IEEE1394_DV1394
- tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support"
+ tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support (deprecated)"
depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394
help
- This driver allows you to transmit and receive DV (digital video)
- streams on an OHCI-1394 card using a simple frame-oriented
- interface.
-
- The user-space API for dv1394 is documented in dv1394.h.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called dv1394.
+ The dv1394 driver will be removed from Linux in a future release.
+ Its functionality is now provided by raw1394 together with libraries
+ such as libiec61883.
config IEEE1394_RAWIO
tristate "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support"
{
int ret;
+ printk(KERN_WARNING
+ "WARNING: The dv1394 driver is unsupported and will be removed "
+ "from Linux soon. Use raw1394 instead.\n");
+
cdev_init(&dv1394_cdev, &dv1394_fops);
dv1394_cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
kobject_set_name(&dv1394_cdev.kobj, "dv1394");