On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 08:43:35 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:16:42 +0200
> Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mauro,
> > 
> > Please pull from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb
> 
> Done. We should convert TUNER_SET_CONFIG to v4l2-subdev, in order to stop 
> using
> the i2c command interface. I didn't checked, but I suspect that this is the
> last case of using the i2c command on v4l drivers.
> 
> The removal of i2c command will probably make Jean happy as well, since
> this will also remove some legacy code from i2c core.

Oh yeah \o/

> > This finalizes (I hope :-) ) the v4l2-subdev conversion. Most of these 
> > patches above remove code that's no longer needed. There are also some 
> > v4l2-subdev.h API improvements that I postponed until all the drivers were 
> > converted. These changes are trivial, but touch on a lot of files.
> 
> Please let's avoid changing the internal API again on 2.6.31. We should focus
> on fixing the bugs during this cycle, since the changes were far above the
> usual, and affected all drivers.
> 
> > The other major change is that the old i2c autoprobing API is now used for 
> > kernels < 2.6.26. This was < 2.6.22, but a bug in i2c_new_probed_subdev 
> > prevent us from using the new i2c API for kernels 2.6.22-2.6.25. Actually 
> > it would be possible with 2.6.25, but since there were some other i2c API 
> > changes in 2.6.26 anyway I decided that it made life easier if we put the 
> > switchover point at 2.6.26.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > There are some other cleanups I could do, but all the important ones are 
> > now 
> > taken care of.
> > 
> > I would like to take the opportunity to thank Jean Delvare for his support 
> > and his help in testing various drivers and working on ir-kbd-i2c, and 
> > Mauro for processing and merging all my patches. I feel a little guilty for 
> > burying Mauro in this big pile of patches :-)
> > 
> > I also want to thank Andy Walls for doing the cx18 conversion, Mike Isely 
> > for doing the pvrusb2 conversion, Douglas Landgraf for doing the em28xx 
> > conversion, Trent Piepho for his reviews, Steve Toth for testing the 
> > cx23885 driver, Devin Heitmueller for converting au8522/au0828 and Sri 
> > Deevi for converting the cx231xx driver at short notice.
> > 
> > I've no doubt forgotten people, for which I apologize.
> 
> Thank you and all the others for the efforts. I expect you all to take extra
> care to fix all regressions that may eventually rise with those changes. In
> particular, please track the bugzillas at kernel.org.

Yes, I am totally committed to help fix any i2c issue that may arise as
a consequence of the recent driver conversions.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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