[mythtv] Re:[PATCH] Re: ivtv settings patch (revisited)

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:23 am, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> Then my suggestion would be 'don't apply the v4l2 patches to the kernel'
> (of course this won't help for people using 2.6).  It seems annoying that
> we have potentially 3 versions of the videodev2.h file around: myth's,
> ivtv's, and the kernel's.  This will not be easy to keep coordinated as
> stuff changes.  perhaps we should find a way to detect and use the
> kernel's version of videodev2.h before trying to use the
> videodev2_myth.h?

Doesn't work, as the kernel videodev2.h cannot be used by userspace programs, 
due to it including other kernel-only headers.

Best solution would be for the v4l2 author to revert his completely 
unnecessary binary-compatibility breaking changes.

Isaac