Gerd Knorr wrote: > > A TUNER bit is still present, IMHO a _simple_ check to see whenever some > tuner is present or not is useful. Just for the records, when is a simple check advantageous? > It is still there, named "V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_OVERLAY" now. Ok, my bad. > > * READ/WRITE/STREAMING - Actually I thought this was never in question > > (unlike optional ioctls just returning -EINVAL). I always liked to > > enable the appropriate i/o routines without much ado. What's the > > alternative? > > read/write/streaming not being optional (but mandatory like select > support)? I don't see a good reason why r/w and/or streaming must be mandatory. Is there? Michael