Bug#569091: Uses obsolete V4L1 API

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Tue Mar 9 12:01:55 UTC 2010


-=| gregor herrmann, Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 06:05:04PM +0100 |=-
> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:30:18 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > > seems invalid, the module is an interface for v4l, not v4l2, so this is at
> > > best wishlist for a new module, certainly not a bug.
> > > note that the suggested libv4l is supposed to work just fine with the module
> > > (according to libv4l docs).
> > So it seems to me we want to patch this so it uses v4l1_* functions 
> > from libv4l? (http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html pointed in 
> > the initial bug message).
> 
> Ack, and it's probably not difficult for someone who speaks C.

I added v4l2.patch and the module compiles.

Please someone with a camera, test it. There are sample scripts in 
examples/.
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