Re: Re: [patches!] Re: v4l2/kernel-2.5

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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
return an error and the app can bail out nicely.

Ronald





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