[mythtv] [FIX] V4L2 controls

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sun Jan 4 11:38:58 EST 2004


On Sunday 04 January 2004 05:26 am, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > Breaks old drivers, of course.  Your bttv driver should be backward
> > compatible with the old ioctls.  If it's not, it's a bug in the bttv
> > driver.
>
> I know it breaks old drivers.  Not really sure what can be done about it
> to make it work with both (I suppose it could try both ioctls and see
> which works, but that's icky).  But I thought I'd post that fix because
> I'm sure other people are going to have the same problem sooner or later.

Have you:
 - patched your kernel with v4l2 support?
 - updated that patch recently?

IIRC, the code that translates the new ioctl to the old one lives in the 
kernel's videodev module.

Isaac


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