[Meego-kernel] About kernel-headers package in Meego (V4L2 subdev/Media Controller)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 12/3/2010 4:47 AM, Teemu Tuominen wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, we won't have the MC headers in the kernel-headers package in 
>> the near
>> future, so a temporary media-controller-headers package might be needed.
>>
> Sounds like a decent temporary solution. I can take such task and 
> provide the specific headers package along with upcoming 
> gst-plugins-camera through the n900 device adaptation. If its 
> acceptable way to go - Arjan ? Maybe we should keep the solution 
> specific to Nokia N900 images as long as needed, but I feel its 
> necessity to gain focus and joint forces around Meego camera subsystem 
> contributors asap. Simply because it seems possible in near future. 

I'm not very happy about it.... you're going to get applications that 
use an ABI, and if the ABI changes in the upstreaming process, suddenly 
all your apps will break.

until this is accepted by Linus, we really ought to not do this.  Having 
a package as mentioned is ok if Linus already took the change, but did 
not make a release yet.
But these ABIs aren't nearly that far yet.