Janne Grunau wrote: > 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. Changing the namespace is a common message, I hear this a lot. This will probably be one of the first things to change. > > 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. Johannes suggested we lose the fixed length approach and instead pass in struct containing the number of elements... I happen to like this, and it removed an unnecessary restriction. So if 16 feels odd, we're soon not going to have any practical limit. > >> 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, thank you for your support. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
