Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] V4L1 backwards compatibility

[Peter R. <pbr...@gm...>]

> No, I still haven't tried Ekiga (I'm going to test it when I have the
> time), but I still need to have the webcam working with all these other
> applications.
>
> Do you mean that all these applications use the v4l or v4l2 interface
> incorrectly?
>
> Do you have plans to have v4l1 compatibility in the driver?
>
> I still don't know what ioctls should be in a v4l2 driver with v4l1
> compatibility using v4l_compat_translate_ioctl()
> Do you know where I can find that list?
>
> Do you know of a good webcam USB driver that has good v4l1 compatibility
> using v4l_compat_translate_ioctl() ?
> I saw http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ but it has both v4l1 and v4l2
> APIs.

I don't see the point in adding V4L1 support as its due to be removed
from the kernel before too long (can't remember the exact proposed
kernel release but it may be 2.6.18).

Peter