On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Hans Verkuil<hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 08 August 2009 22:16:28 wk wrote: >> Alexey Klimov schrieb: >> > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Trent Piepho<xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Alexey Klimov wrote: >> >> >> >>> Redesign radio->users counter. Don't allow more that 5 users on radio in >> >>> >> >> Why? >> >> >> > >> > Well, v4l2 specs says that multiple opens are optional. Honestly, i >> > think that five userspace applications open /dev/radio is enough. Btw, >> > if too many userspace applications opened radio that means that >> > something wrong happened in userspace. And driver can handle such >> > situation by disallowing new open calls(returning EBUSY). I can't >> > imagine user that runs more than five mplayers or gnomeradios, or >> > kradios and so on. >> > >> > Am i totally wrong here? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > > > Exactly. It's an artificial restriction that serves no purpose. Also > remember that apps can open a radio device just to do e.g. a QUERYCAP > or something like that. It does not necessarily has to be an mplayer > or gnomeradio. > > Regards, > > Hans > > -- > Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG Telecom Ok, i'll update the patch. Idea initially came in mind from gspca.c. -- Best regards, Klimov Alexey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
