Gerd Knorr wrote: > > I've uploaded my hacks: > > http://www.strusel007.de/linux/bttv/videodev-2001-04-23.tar.gz > > minor update: > http://www.strusel007.de/linux/bttv/videodev-2001-04-30.tar.gz I couldn't reach it last night, but it seems ok now. To get the ball rolling, I am going to construct a patch against 2.4.4 that will integrate this into the kernel. > The v4l2 drivers have to deal with both new-style v4l2 and old-style > v4l1 mappings then. Ok, I can live with that. > [...] > IMHO it better and less confusing to handle it this way: > > * drop the V4L2_BUF_REQ_CONTIG flag. > * v4l2 drivers should handle VIDIOCGMBUF directly [...] > * mmap() will not be translated by the compatibility layer.[...] > * the v4l2 driver should never ever use zero as offset magic [...] Good. OK. Bill.
