On 09/01/2008 06:00 PM, VDR User wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm aware that your solution seems to be more code-complete than Steven's >> proposal. >> >> But the recent activity on the mailing list regarding his idea (and its, >> so far, positive feedback) and the fact that I was anyway planning to >> have a discussion about the future of the DVB-API at the Linux Plumbers >> Conference 2008 are supporting me in my idea of post-poning such a pull to >> a point in time shortly after this event. > > I understand peoples frustration in waiting for multiproto since I'm > one of them as well. However, I believe the support for Steven's > proposal is largely because people aren't aware that multiproto is now > in a ready-state and has a pull request pending. Over the last > several months I've seen many question when/if multiproto will be > done, or if it is dead... I think we all agree that it has taken > quite some time for multiproto to get to a point where it's ready but > that time has come. > > Multiproto -can- be pulled in right now, and if that happened, drivers > could be written immediately, finally providing users with what > they've needed for so long. In my opinion it makes no sense to throw > out a robust api that is ready right now just because of frustration > and past personal grudges (whether anyone will openly admit to this or > not, it -is- a part of this). The questions for consideration -should > be-... Is the code ready? Can it handle future specs? Is it missing > anything that should be included? If the code is ready and is robust, > then the final question is what benefit is there in making people wait > yet longer for another api to be written? Will this new api proposal > offer anything that multiproto doesn't already? > > It seems we can finally move forward and now instead of incomplete > code stopping it, politics are. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > If what VDR User and Jelle De Loecker are saying is right, I don't see a reason for not going with multiproto either. I'm an enduser and I would be happy with multiproto as well. I think I'm not alone if I say I care less *what* the solution is going to be, as long as we get DVB-S2 support in-kernel. P. van Gaans _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
