[linux-dvb] Re: FE_GET_EVENT to clear frontend event queue: onlyfor QPSK?

[Nico Sabbi <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>  
> > of the current ?zap applications only szap uses FE_GET_EVENT to clear 
> > the event queue before tuning;
> > tzap and czap don't.
> > Is there a particular reason for this? Clearing an event queue seems to 
> > be a reasonably common
> > thing to do.
> >    
> Actually in the current szap.c it is pointless to clear the event queue
> as the code does not wait for events later. You can look at szap.c
> how I originally wrote it (following the Nokia API spec), where
> this actually made sense:
> http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/DVB/apps/szap/szap.c?rev=1.1
>
> But I agree with Holger that the contents of struct dvb_frontend_event
> (and thus the event queue) is rather uninteresting, what counts
> is that you get a notification of changes in frontend status
> via poll()/select(), and you can then get the current status
> via FE_READ_STATUS.
>
> Johannes
>
>
>
>  
a couple of hours ago I fixed dvbstream and dvbtune in cvs.
Tomorrow will be mplayer's turn.

Thanks,
   Nico