V4L/DVB: Deprecate cpia driver (used for parallel port webcams)
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:25:42 +0000 (08:25 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:06:13 +0000 (01:06 -0200)
commit7af97effb3f5a374482179aca490b5038de56fa6
tree70baf9a5fd787e44174bd738421447d30cc31e86
parentda497e30c161963c413e259438b1b54672055b11
V4L/DVB: Deprecate cpia driver (used for parallel port webcams)

cpia driver were re-written inside gspca driver, for USB devices. The only
functionality that were not migrated is the support for parallel port,
as:
1) the developer didn't find any hardware;
2) it doesn't  seem important to keep support for a parallel port webcam,
   as this is an obsolete technology;
3) the changes at gspca for it to work with parallel port would be very large;
4) this driver still uses BKL.

So, let's move it to drivers/staging and label it to die at 2.6.38, if nobody
cares enough to port parallel port support to gspca or to create a new driver
that uses the same gspca-cpia sub-driver.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
16 files changed:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/media/video/Kconfig
drivers/media/video/Makefile
drivers/media/video/cpia.c [deleted file]
drivers/media/video/cpia.h [deleted file]
drivers/media/video/cpia_pp.c [deleted file]
drivers/media/video/cpia_usb.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/cpia/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/cpia/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/cpia/TODO [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/cpia/cpia.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/cpia/cpia_pp.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/cpia/cpia_usb.c [new file with mode: 0644]