[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 107296] Changed - [PATCH] v4l doesn't close device on failure and fails to quickly

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Changed by rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net.

--- shadow/107296	Sat Mar  1 07:55:38 2003
+++ shadow/107296.tmp.20029	Sat Mar  1 08:13:30 2003
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Bug#: 107296
 Product: GStreamer
 Version: cvs
 OS: Linux
 OS Details: 
-Status: NEW   
-Resolution: 
+Status: RESOLVED   
+Resolution: FIXED
 Severity: normal
 Priority: Normal
 Component: gst-plugins
 AssignedTo: rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net                            
 ReportedBy: sjoerd at luon.net               
 QAContact: gstreamer-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org
@@ -51,6 +51,21 @@
 I already e-mailed the author about that. The webcam has a mic, but it
 is not accessible through the v4l api. According to him the flag is 
 informational only and in the future it will be possible to ask to
 which audio device it is coupled.. 
 
 Your patch works fine and is indeed a better solution to the problem
+
+------- Additional Comments From rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net  2003-03-01 08:13 -------
+(patch applied to CVS/HEAD, please reopen if something's still wrong).
+
+-edit- concerning the driver, the driver author is wrong (imho). In
+v4l2, these flags are partly informational (there's an additional
+syscall for per-input audio information). In v4l1, the flag informs
+applications that the driver can do sound. In both cases, if the v4l
+api is not used for sound, it shouldn't say it has sound. v4l will
+never include information about which device does sound, since that's
+outside the scope of v4l (and system-specific).
+
+Informational doesn't mean "show me how cool my cam is", it means
+"give information to the application what features the cam provides
+over this API".