On Wednesday 24 September 2008 00:06:59 VDR User wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > > <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The DVB BOF had the presence of the following LinuxTV members: > > > > Douglas Schilling Landgraf > > Hans Verkuil > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab > > Michael Krufky > > Patrick Boettcher > > Steven Toth > > Thierry Merle > > Manjunath Hadlii > > At least half of that list already pledged their support for S2API > and based on past observations, I seriously doubt the meeting was > unbiased and a decision made based on strictly technical aspects. So you doubt anyone who previously stated his opinion on multiproto or S2API is unable to make a decision on technical merrits? Since most linuxtv devs already gave their opinion on the API proposal nobody is able to make a decision. > I also believe the panel should consist of people intimately familiar > with DVB, not half people who aren't and the other half people who've > already made up their mind. Call me crazy but I don't see how a > legitimate discussion can take place under those conditions. Are you going to sponser and organize a meeting of all linuxtv DVB developers? I agree that it would have been nice if more developers and especially Manu would have been at the DVB BOF. But more than 2/3 (849/1245) of the commits to drivers/media/dvb in the last 1000 days were done by people present at the meeting. It's not completly unreasonable to treat a decision of that group as a decission of the linuxtv developers. > > The main arguments in favor of S2API over Multiproto are: > > > > - Future proof – the proposal for S2API is more flexible, > > easily allowing the addition of newer features and new standard > > support; > > > > - Simplicity – S2API patches are very simple, while > > Multiproto presented a very complex series of changes. Simpler > > approaches reduces the time for maintaining the source code; > > > > - Capability of allowing improvements even on the existing > > standards, like allowing diversity control that starts to appear on > > newer DVB devices. > > My previous comment aside, I would like to ask for a more detailed > explanation that justifies these arguments, I support that, please be more verbose. Janne _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
