Le Thursday 25 September 2008 05:57:18 Manu Abraham, vous avez écrit : > Hans Verkuil wrote: > > Just work with Steve to convert the current devices in the multiproto > > tree to use this API. If there is anything missing kick Steve and he'll > > have to add whatever is needed. That's *his* responsibility and he > > accepted that during the discussions. > > With the multiproto tree, you _don't_need_ to convert any devices to use > the new infrastructure, whereas with S2API you need to do that. This is > a major drawback. In the multiproto tree, all devices work just without > any conversion of any kind, also it is completely backward compatible. > > The aspect of backward compatibility and drivers not getting converted > had been a major issue, when the original DVB-S2 discussions came up. > This had been a design goal for the multiproto tree. I'm not sure to get you Manu. Do you mean that existing drivers have to be "converted" to work with s2api ? -- Christophe Thommeret _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
