On 28 Oct 2002, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 11:59, Michael H. Schimek wrote:
> > Anyway, to help driver specific apps identify
> > the driver it would be really nice to have another name field which
> > contains the driver name ("bttv"), only the driver name, and never
> > changes.
>
> Isn't the whole point of v4l2 that we don't need driver-specific apps?
> Driver specific apps should be killed instantly. If the driver doesn't
> support a specific operation, the ioctl() won't be supported or will
That's a nice theory, but v4l2 doesn't provide all the details of the
capabilities of a piece of hardware or allow one to access all it's functions.
