[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 01.03.2012 09:38, Frank Schmirler wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:33:31 +0100, Udo Richter wrote
>> Am 29.02.2012 16:17, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
>>>    + The function cDevice::Receiving() now returns true if there is any
>>> receiver
>>>      attached to the device. Its boolean parameter has no meaning any more.
>>
>> Please remember to drop the following line from PLUGINS.html, as it
>> is now finally completely void:
>>
>>> (any negative value will allow a cReceiver to be detached from its cDevice
> at any time.)
>>
>> This was handled via Receiving(true).
>>
>> This still leaves the live related receivers unhandled, and since
>> there's no way to port the 'volatile' patch without reverting your
>> changes, we still have the old osdteletext-channel-blocking bug.
>
> Wouldn't it help to run those live related receivers with priority
> IDLEPRIORITY and having cDevice::Receiving() ignore receivers with priority
> IDLEPRIORITY?

Wouldn't that get us back to square one? ;-)

> The default priority of cReceiver should become IDLEPRIORITY instead of
> MINPRIORITY then.

I don't like that. I want an idle device to have a lower priority
than one that has any kind of receiver attached to it.

Klaus