[linux-dvb] Re: Kernel OOPS

[Marcel Siegert <mws@renzel.net>]

On Friday 05 March 2004 13:43, you wrote:
> > 
> > 
> 
> Ok i am able to understand this situation and all of the problems.
> 
> Please take the next sentences as my thinkin of the whole situation :)
> 
> why is there a need for any kind of a dvb api when you have to implement driver missing features in your software?
> 
> on my point of view it looks like - if my application runs  e.g. on a DBOX2/Dreambox/Whatever Linux running STB do nothing, if it runs on a PC
> check for driver version / hardware revision ect. and implemented hardware dependend stuff into the application.
> 
> In this special case an API is a kind of software stuff to simplify coding and that a developer of an application must have understanding in DVB / Linux but not Driver Coding
> So if you started someday somehow a development of TS Playback capabilities via the dvr device without having real support for this on the hardware side - you should fix this.
> Otherwise take this feature away, and be happy with postings and claims over much applications no longer working. 
> 
> Am i totally wrong ? :)
> 
> cu
> mws
 
Add. I missed something - of course all it is depending on open source and nobody can be taken under pressure to fix it. But it would satisfy lots of people 
if it would be fixed,

cu
mws
 


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