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166fa12c5SStefan RichterWhat:		video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire)
266fa12c5SStefan RichterDate:		May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
366fa12c5SStefan RichterContact:	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
466fa12c5SStefan RichterDescription:
566fa12c5SStefan Richter	/dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire
666fa12c5SStefan Richter	controller, which were used for isochronous I/O.  It was added as an
766fa12c5SStefan Richter	alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had
866fa12c5SStefan Richter	performance issues in its first generation.  Any video1394 user had
966fa12c5SStefan Richter	to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide
1066fa12c5SStefan Richter	asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration.
11*54a19b4dSMauro Carvalho Chehab
1266fa12c5SStefan Richter	Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
1366fa12c5SStefan Richter	firewire-core.
1466fa12c5SStefan Richter
1566fa12c5SStefan RichterUsers:
1666fa12c5SStefan Richter	libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
1766fa12c5SStefan Richter	users)
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