[mythtv] Re: ivtv 0.3.0

[John Harvey]

I agree i just havent looked into whether or not thats
possible yet. For some things its easy but we need a
way to get the version of the driver back and i havent
looked at whether or not that is possible.

John
 --- Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote: 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:15:53AM +0100, John
> Harvey wrote:
> > > On Monday 11 October 2004 09:41 pm, David Engel
> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:46:03AM +0200,
> Marcel Meier wrote:
> > > > > Better go read the list over there at ivtv!!
> > > > >
> > > > > The 0.3.0 is the new development version.
> > > > > The 0.2.0 better at the moment 0.2.0-rc1
> will become the "stable" driver
> > > > > version atm.
> > > >
> > > > Correct, so please help test the 0.2.0 release
> candidates unless you
> > > > really, really, really want to live on the
> bleeding edge of 0.3.0.
> > > >
> > > > FYI, Isaac will have the final word, but my
> intention is that any
> > > > near-term enhancements in Myth will be for the
> 0.2.0 driver.
> > > 
> > > Sure, that's ok.  I would like to keep backwards
> compatability with 0.1.9,
> > > though.
> > > 
> > > Isaac
> 
> > 0.2 installs ivtv.h header in /usr/include/linux.
> I have a patch that I'm
> > working on that conditionally looks for it and
> sets a define when qmake is
> > run. We can then maintain backward compatibility
> using this define to switch
> > out new code.
> > Does that sound ok to you Isaac?
> > John
> 
> If possible it would be nice to detect this at
> runtime, so the
> matching happens on the target system, and the user
> can upgrade ivtv
> independently from mythtv.
> -- 
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
> 

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