Hi, On Sun, May 27, 2007, Christian Prähauser wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2007, Christian Praehauser wrote: > > > >> The branch is available at > >> http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~cpraehaus/hg.cgi/v4l-dvb. What you did to include/linux/dvb/net.h is not allowed. You must not break backwards compatibility of userspace APIs. You can only add new ioctls or make backwards compatible changes to existing ioctls, but not delete or change them. Or add old cruft to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. (Well, I have no practical experience with dvb-net, and the API design is from Nokia, so maybe it's totally broken and no one uses it. But unless you are absolutely sure that there are no users you are not allowed to break it.) Have you looked at the ioctls which ifconfig uses? (man 2 ioctl_list) E.g. would it be possible to use SIOCGIFCONF to find the dvb-net interfaces? Could one use ifconfig e.g. to set the MAC? In general, I'm not convinced that it was a good idea to put dvb-net in the kernel at all, because I think usually MPE/ULE traffic would be encrypted (probably with your ISP's proprietary scheme), so you'd have a daemon in userspace which sets the section filters to receive the data, decrypt it, and feed packets into the network stack via a tun device. IMHO the overhead of doing it in userspace would be minor. It also makes it easy to use multiple PIDs which didn't work well with dvb-net (one PID per dvb net device). But again, I have no practical experience with dvb-net, you're the dvb-net expert now ;-), so I trust you to make the right decision. HTH, Johannes _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
