[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: drop VDA

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 08:12:14PM +0200, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
[...]
> > Just to be clear (sorry if I make you repeat yourself), we currently have
> > the following:
> >
> > - Systems without VDA (that is, almost all of them) do not have access to
> >   either VDA or the stub: for them, we are exposing a header with FFmpeg
> >   symbols not accessible.
> >
> > - Systems with VDA have access to the VDA code (assuming it still build)
> >
> > What you suggest:
> >
> > - Both systems (with and without VDA) should now use the existing stub we
> >   currently never build so the ABI for systems with VDA will be kept.
> >
> > Is that correct?
> >
> > If so, this means we will start introducing a deprecated API stub for VDA
> > on all systems.
> >
> > Or should I start exposing the stub only for VDA systems, meaning I'll
> > need to keep the VDA detection in the configure?
> >
> 
> Obivously including the stub everywhere is much easier and far saner,
> does it really harm to do that?
> 

It's just a bit weird to actually introduce deprecated symbols that
weren't there in the first place.

-- 
Clément B.
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