[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Frontend API, DiSEqC 2.0 additions

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Felix Domke wrote:
>>I modified the DiSEqC ioctl's to FE_DISEQC_SEND_MASTER_CMD and
>>FE_DISEQC_RECV_SLAVE_REPLY so that we can handle two-way DiSEqC 2.0.
>>Anyway, I don't have a device here where I can implement and test this...
> 
> So please add a frontend event too, as well as the possibility to send
> non-blocking diseqc and get an event when it's done.
> 
> i would hate having one thread for each FD :)
> 

Then we would have to simulate this behaviour in the driver using kernel 
threads or a tricky state machine - this would be error-prone and causes 
much higher complexity. Things like this definitely do not belong in 
kernel space.

- Holger



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