[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-CI question

["Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net>]

From: "Andrew de Quincey" <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
> On Friday 26 March 2004 15:14, Peter Urbanec wrote:
> > How about adding another layer? Take all this from the driver, but
> > provide a library implementation that applications can dynamically link
> > to to get the reassembly for free. That way you get the benefit of both
> > worlds. You keep the driver simple and the application developer
doesn't
> > have to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Yeah, I agree, thats *exactly* the way to do it.

And I thought that's exactly what the Linux-DVB API is all about!? I.e. to
provide a framework as well as all the _common_ non-hardware specific code,
so that for each individual piece of hardware only a minimum driver,
ideally a "Hardware Abstraction Layer" (HAL) is required. The API then
provides all the "mid-level" code (e.g. tuning control, satellite equipment
control, common interface), and the individual applications then take
advantage of high-level APIs and do _not_ have to re-implement everything.

But according to Klaus' comments, the API is currently far from that...?

Regards,
--
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany



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