On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:02 +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote: > P. van Gaans wrote: > > On 05/12/2008 03:16 PM, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > > @all: > > > 1. If nobody objects I will commit the patches. > > > 2. Please check and fix the other frontend drivers to follow the spec. > > > > Will the behaviour of femon change, and if so, in what way? > > For a correct driver unc would not return to 0 (unless the counter > wrapped). And that is the critical part to support multiple opens on the device and still return meaningful values. If a 0 could happen under any other condition, the meaning of a 0 being read would be ambiguous. An application couldn't tell the difference between: a) an error occurred and the counter rolled over or b) no error occurred and another caller simply cleared the count. -Andy _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
