Video4Linux device capabilities

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was checking the v4l support as the n770 has a radio and webcam, and
> the n800 has a webcam,

minor corrections:
N800 has v4l2 camera and suprisely also radio, 770 (without 'n') has none.

Stefan

> and saw that some time ago [0] the capabilities
> of the v4l devices were exposed through some keys under the multimedia
> namespace, but that was removed [1] after some cleanup, the only reason
> I could find in the changelog was that the functionality was going to
> be reimplemented in the new code, and then it was forgotten?
> 
> If that's it, I could ressurrect the code by Kay and put the v4l
> capabilities namespacesd in the info.capabilities key, after
> discussion of which cap names would be appropriate.
> 
> regards,
> guillem
> 
> [0] commit b4c66c180901dd658f8d9ee3d9f434fa12464279
> [1] commit d208bb1397471f7a1cb55013f4c82e202310af46
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