[linux-dvb] Re: cinergyT2: which kernel/usb module to use?

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>]

Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> >The API (as documented) requires frontends to implement FE_GET_EVENT.
> >Why should we want to break this?
> 
> is somewhere stated that this ioctl is mandantory, I can't remind so? As 
> for all other ioctls the application has to check the return value and 
> properly handle this.

The docs don't say that FE_GET_EVENT is optional.
Or, the other way round, they don't say that FE_SET_FRONTEND
is mandatory. This is implied.


Johannes