Michael Krufky wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Michael Krufky wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:02 PM, VDR User <user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I have stated that I like Manu's proposal, but I would prefer that the >>> get_property (s2api) interface were used, because it totally provides >>> an interface that is sufficient for this feature. >>> >>> Manu and I agree that these values should all be read at once. >>> >>> I think we all (except Mauro) agree that the behavior within the >>> driver should fetch all statistics at once and return it to userspace >>> as a single structure with all the information as it all relates to >>> each other. >> You're contradicting yourself: by using S2API, the userspace API won't >> be using a single structure, since S2API will break them into pairs of >> attributes/values. > > Incorrect. Userspace would issue a get_property call and kernelspace > would return a block of key/value pairs. If userspace does a call with space for just one key/value pair, where do you expect to store the other key/value pairs? Mauro. -- 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
