Hello Markus, Markus Rechberger wrote: > The main discussion in this thread was about drivers in userspace > are bad because the API will allow binary drivers. The guy > who works for Hauppauge (again I also have good contacts > at Hauppauge Europe) writes it's bad - for no technical reason. AFAICS, Steven raised the same thoughts what i had. > If someone points out that it is bad (after reading the whole thread) > why don't we put X.org, bash, well everything into the kernel? I am not saying that userspace is bad. In fact i am all for userspace, _if_ there is much of a complication. For example we have had largely complex devices. You might like to read this thread a while back. This was the reason why we started up libdvbapi/mti (For those who don't know what it is, libdvbapi/mti is a userspace approach for having device support in userspace with complicated tuning algorithms with a lot of calculations) http://search.gmane.org/?query=Re%3A+%5BRFC%5D+Userspace+extensions%2C+was+Re%3A+%5Blinux-dvb%5D+%5Bpatch%5D+Add+support+for+different+tuning+algorithms&author=&group=linux.drivers.dvb&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&query= For that demodulator and a successor for the same, i had finally moved the same to in kernel with a lot of trouble. Maybe it is not as precise as it should have been. But what i mean is that we should use such approaches if there needs to be a heavy valid reason and if there are many more devices going that way, we should definitely move to userspace. Maybe the userspace idea is a bit still immature. That said, i don't see any such complexities with the XC3028 Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
