| Stefan Richter | 66fa12c | 2010-10-10 00:12:20 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | What: video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire) |
| 2 | Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 |
| 3 | Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net |
| 4 | Description: |
| 5 | /dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire |
| 6 | controller, which were used for isochronous I/O. It was added as an |
| 7 | alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had |
| 8 | performance issues in its first generation. Any video1394 user had |
| 9 | to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide |
| 10 | asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration. |
| 11 | Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of |
| 12 | firewire-core. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Users: |
| 15 | libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI |
| 16 | users) |