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These drivers haven't been tested in a long, long time. The hardware is
ancient and hopelessly obsolete. These drivers also need to be converted
to newer media frameworks but due to the lack of hardware that's going
to be impossible. In addition, cheaper and vastly better hardware is
available today.

So these drivers are a prime candidate for removal. If someone is
interested in working on these drivers to prevent their removal, then
please contact the linux-media mailinglist.

Let's be honest, the age of parallel port webcams and ISA video capture
boards is really gone.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
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Hans Verkuil authored and Mauro Carvalho Chehab committed Dec 17, 2014
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion drivers/media/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -160,7 +160,6 @@ source "drivers/media/usb/Kconfig"
source "drivers/media/pci/Kconfig"
source "drivers/media/platform/Kconfig"
source "drivers/media/mmc/Kconfig"
source "drivers/media/parport/Kconfig"
source "drivers/media/radio/Kconfig"

comment "Supported FireWire (IEEE 1394) Adapters"
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/media/Makefile
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# Finally, merge the drivers that require the core
#

obj-y += common/ platform/ pci/ usb/ mmc/ firewire/ parport/
obj-y += common/ platform/ pci/ usb/ mmc/ firewire/
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) += radio/

2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions drivers/staging/media/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ source "drivers/staging/media/mn88473/Kconfig"

source "drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/Kconfig"

source "drivers/staging/media/parport/Kconfig"

source "drivers/staging/media/vino/Kconfig"

# Keep LIRC at the end, as it has sub-menus
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Expand Up @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DM365_VPFE) += davinci_vpfe/
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_OMAP4) += omap4iss/
obj-$(CONFIG_DVB_MN88472) += mn88472/
obj-$(CONFIG_DVB_MN88473) += mn88473/
obj-y += parport/
obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_TLG2300) += tlg2300/
obj-y += vino/

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if MEDIA_PARPORT_SUPPORT
config VIDEO_BWQCAM
tristate "Quickcam BW Video For Linux"
tristate "Quickcam BW Video For Linux (Deprecated)"
depends on PARPORT && VIDEO_V4L2
select VIDEOBUF2_VMALLOC
help
Say Y have if you the black and white version of the QuickCam
camera. See the next option for the color version.

This driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. If you have
hardware for this and you want to work on this driver, then contact
the linux-media mailinglist.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called bw-qcam.

config VIDEO_CQCAM
tristate "QuickCam Colour Video For Linux"
tristate "QuickCam Colour Video For Linux (Deprecated)"
depends on PARPORT && VIDEO_V4L2
help
This is the video4linux driver for the colour version of the
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as a module (c-qcam).
Read <file:Documentation/video4linux/CQcam.txt> for more information.

This driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. If you have
hardware for this and you want to work on this driver, then contact
the linux-media mailinglist.

config VIDEO_PMS
tristate "Mediavision Pro Movie Studio Video For Linux"
tristate "Mediavision Pro Movie Studio Video For Linux (Deprecated)"
depends on ISA && VIDEO_V4L2
help
Say Y if you have the ISA Mediavision Pro Movie Studio
capture card.

This driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. If you have
hardware for this and you want to work on this driver, then contact
the linux-media mailinglist.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called pms.

config VIDEO_W9966
tristate "W9966CF Webcam (FlyCam Supra and others) Video For Linux"
tristate "W9966CF Webcam (FlyCam Supra and others) Video For Linux (Deprecated)"
depends on PARPORT_1284 && PARPORT && VIDEO_V4L2
help
Video4linux driver for Winbond's w9966 based Webcams.
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Check out <file:Documentation/video4linux/w9966.txt> for more
information.

This driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. If you have
hardware for this and you want to work on this driver, then contact
the linux-media mailinglist.
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