On Friday 29 August 2008 20:29:30 Steven Toth wrote: > > Mauro Chehab, Michael Krufky, Patrick Boettcher and myself are hereby > announcing that we no longer support multiproto and are forming a > smaller dedicated project group which is focusing on adding next > generation S2/ISDB-T/DVB-H/DVB-T2/DVB-SH support to the kernel > through a different and simpler API. > > Basic patches and demo code for this API is currently available here. > > http://www.steventoth.net/linux/s2 Overall API looks good. I have also a slightly preference for DTV/dtv as prefix but it's not really important. 16 properties per ioctl are probably enough but a variable-length property array would be safe. I'm unsure if this justifies a more complicate copy from/to userspace in the ioctls. > Importantly, this project group seeks your support. > > If you also feel frustrated by the multiproto situation and agree in > principle with this new approach, and the overall direction of the > API changes, then we welcome you and ask you to help us. > > Growing the list of supporting names by 100%, and allowing us to > publish your name on the public mailing list, would show the > non-maintainer development community that we recognize the problem > and we're taking steps to correct the problem. We want to make > LinuxTV a perfect platform for S2, ISDB-T and other advanced > modulation types, without using the multiproto patches. > > We're not asking you for technical help, although we'd like that :) > , we're just asking for your encouragement to move away from > multiproto. > > If you feel that you want to support our movement then please help us > by acking this email. Acked-by: Janne Grunau <janne-dvb@xxxxxxxxx> Janne _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
