Hello Gerd,
> > The thing is S_FMT and G_FMT are used for setting other formats too.
> > You can't remove S_FMT and G_FMT, so you gain nothing by forcing v4l2
> > drivers to interpret VIDIOCGVBIFMT, etc. instead.
>
> v4l2 drivers are supported to be backward compatible to v4l, so they have
^^^^^^^^^
supposed?
> to interpret VIDIOCGVBIFMT anyway. And I can't see any advantages v4l2
> has here, so why support two different ways to do exactly the same?
Why are v4l2 drivers supposed to interpret VIDIOCGVBIFMT? In the
"old" v4l2-scheme, backward compatibility is entirely up to
videodevX, and that's good.
(Please note my other mail, which goes into the same directions)
> Gerd
CU
Michael.
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