V4L/DVB: Deprecate stradis driver
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:26:28 +0000 (08:26 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:06:13 +0000 (01:06 -0200)
commit96322b80e29802d2d3087987f6dc4e5aa19df64b
tree5297c736162d4a936dd32517633957b7ae0748e0
parent7af97effb3f5a374482179aca490b5038de56fa6
V4L/DVB: Deprecate stradis driver

The driver author seems to not worked on this driver since its conversion
from 2.2 to 2.4. Nobody is known to have a stradis hardware for testing. As
it still uses V4L1 API, BKL and probably some other old stuff, someone would
need to work on it to preserve the driver. Instead of investing time and
efforts to keep porting it to work with new API's, it seems better to just
drop the driver.

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>
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/media/video/Kconfig
drivers/media/video/Makefile
drivers/media/video/stradis.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/stradis/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/stradis/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/stradis/TODO [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/staging/stradis/stradis.c [new file with mode: 0644]