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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>2023-01-10 12:26:19 +0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>2023-01-22 11:54:31 +0300
commitba47652ba65523ccadac3f8d50dc0e0d560477b2 (patch)
treeba64d2410d8d4022e4f306dcc9a0fa8236126538 /Documentation/admin-guide/media
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downloadlinux-ba47652ba65523ccadac3f8d50dc0e0d560477b2.tar.xz
media: meye: remove this deprecated driver
The meye driver does not use the vb2 framework for streaming video, instead it implements this in the driver. This is error prone, and nobody stepped in to convert this driver to that framework. The hardware is very old, so the decision was made to remove it altogether. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst93
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst1
3 files changed, 0 insertions, 95 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9098a1e65f8b..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/meye.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-.. include:: <isonum.txt>
-
-Vaio Picturebook Motion Eye Camera Driver
-=========================================
-
-Copyright |copy| 2001-2004 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
-
-Copyright |copy| 2001-2002 AlcĂ´ve <www.alcove.com>
-
-Copyright |copy| 2000 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
-
-This driver enable the use of video4linux compatible applications with the
-Motion Eye camera. This driver requires the "Sony Laptop Extras" driver (which
-can be found in the "Misc devices" section of the kernel configuration utility)
-to be compiled and installed (using its "camera=1" parameter).
-
-It can do at maximum 30 fps @ 320x240 or 15 fps @ 640x480.
-
-Grabbing is supported in packed YUV colorspace only.
-
-MJPEG hardware grabbing is supported via a private API (see below).
-
-Hardware supported
-------------------
-
-This driver supports the 'second' version of the MotionEye camera :)
-
-The first version was connected directly on the video bus of the Neomagic
-video card and is unsupported.
-
-The second one, made by Kawasaki Steel is fully supported by this
-driver (PCI vendor/device is 0x136b/0xff01)
-
-The third one, present in recent (more or less last year) Picturebooks
-(C1M* models), is not supported. The manufacturer has given the specs
-to the developers under a NDA (which allows the development of a GPL
-driver however), but things are not moving very fast (see
-http://r-engine.sourceforge.net/) (PCI vendor/device is 0x10cf/0x2011).
-
-There is a forth model connected on the USB bus in TR1* Vaio laptops.
-This camera is not supported at all by the current driver, in fact
-little information if any is available for this camera
-(USB vendor/device is 0x054c/0x0107).
-
-Driver options
---------------
-
-Several options can be passed to the meye driver using the standard
-module argument syntax (<param>=<value> when passing the option to the
-module or meye.<param>=<value> on the kernel boot line when meye is
-statically linked into the kernel). Those options are:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- gbuffers: number of capture buffers, default is 2 (32 max)
-
- gbufsize: size of each capture buffer, default is 614400
-
- video_nr: video device to register (0 = /dev/video0, etc)
-
-Module use
-----------
-
-In order to automatically load the meye module on use, you can put those lines
-in your /etc/modprobe.d/meye.conf file:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- alias char-major-81 videodev
- alias char-major-81-0 meye
- options meye gbuffers=32
-
-Usage:
-------
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- xawtv >= 3.49 (<http://bytesex.org/xawtv/>)
- for display and uncompressed video capture:
-
- xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 640x480
- or
- xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 320x240
-
- motioneye (<http://popies.net/meye/>)
- for getting ppm or jpg snapshots, mjpeg video
-
-Bugs / Todo
------------
-
-- 'motioneye' still uses the meye private v4l1 API extensions.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst
index f4d670e632f8..42528795d4da 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ ipu3-cio2 Intel ipu3-cio2 driver
ivtv Conexant cx23416/cx23415 MPEG encoder/decoder
ivtvfb Conexant cx23415 framebuffer
mantis MANTIS based cards
-meye Sony Vaio Picturebook Motion Eye
mxb Siemens-Nixdorf 'Multimedia eXtension Board'
netup-unidvb NetUP Universal DVB card
ngene Micronas nGene
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst
index 90a026ee05c6..adb5240d0407 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/v4l-drivers.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ Video4Linux (V4L) driver-specific documentation
imx7
ipu3
ivtv
- meye
omap3isp
omap4_camera
philips