On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:33 AM, VDR User <user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I would not like to define exact units for BER and USB as those are quite >> hard to implement and also non-sense. User would like just to see if there >> is some (random) numbers and if those numbers are rising or reducing when he >> changes antenna or adjusts gain. We are not making a professional signal >> analyzers - numbers does not need to be 100% correctly. > > Just a small comment here. Since this may finally be done, why not do > it the best way? In the end I think that's better and I don't see any > harm in having the capability to make a pro-grade signal analyzer. > After years of waiting, I don't think half-assing is a good idea. The problem is not in creating an API for such a thing. The problem arises from the fact that all devices need to worked to comply to the API. It might not factually possible to do that, since most drivers are reverse engineered or written in a crude way.. In a lot many cases, there are not even the right documents to do that. An API alone doesn't solve anything at all. Here we are talking about making pro grade software based on home grade silicon, for which most don't have proper documentation. Manu -- 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
