On Wednesday 09 March 2005 22:57, Ralph Metzler wrote: > Kenneth Aafl?y writes: > > If we drop support for the DVB_DEVICE_SEC type, the type bits of the minor > > number can be dropped to 3, which will free up a bit for the adapter > > number, and voila, we have support for 8 cards with four frontends each. > > If you are going to do that at least just move the OSD to 2 instead of > moving all the others. This way nothing changes for somebody with one > card without OSD. This would of course still cause trouble for many Nexus > card users with OSD. Ok, but since Johannes rejected it.. :) > > Any problems with this scheme? > > How do you want to handle the other devices and the association > between them and frontends? Not every frontend needs to have its own > demux (if it is in hardware) and adapter0/frontend and > adapter1/frontend might have to share one. Hmm, didn't think about that.. Kenneth
