On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Janne Grunau <janne-dvb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:45:51 Markus Rechberger wrote: >> what's the matter of merging both? please let us discuss that, the >> APIs shouldn't have a big impact on each other. >> Does it break someone's neck to have both? > > They will stick both forever in the kernel and either applications or > drivers have to support both. Realistically both drivers and > applications will support both. > > This is a stupid compromise which doesn't solve anything. A decision was > made we should live with it. > Janne, as from my side we already delivered vendor specific drivers with vendor specific interfaces to a couple of customers and also patched the enduser applications for it since the API didn't provide the necessary features. I don't see that there's a restriction on a single API for it, BSD guys simply put a compatibility layer infront of their API in order to support linux applications while having the full flexibility. Although it's your opinion and I respect it. Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
