| What: video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire) |
| Date: May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37 |
| Contact: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net |
| Description: |
| /dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire |
| controller, which were used for isochronous I/O. It was added as an |
| alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had |
| performance issues in its first generation. Any video1394 user had |
| to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide |
| asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration. |
| Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of |
| firewire-core. |
| |
| Users: |
| libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI |
| users) |
