| 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) |