From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754110Ab1LCSVN (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:21:13 -0500 Received: from mailfe05.c2i.net ([212.247.154.130]:46114 "EHLO swip.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753505Ab1LCSVL (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:21:11 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 301 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:21:11 EST X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, BAYES_50 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driver because of worrying about possible misusage? Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 19:13:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) Cc: VDR User , Andreas Oberritter , HoP , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20111203174247.0bbab100@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111203174247.0bbab100@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Face: *nPdTl_}RuAI6^PVpA02T?$%Xa^>@hE0uyUIoiha$pC:9TVgl.Oq,NwSZ4V"|LR.+tj}g5 %V,x^qOs~mnU3]Gn;cQLv&.N>TrxmSFf+p6(30a/{)KUU!s}w\IhQBj}[g}bj0I3^glmC( :AuzV9:.hESm-x4h240C`9=w MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112031913.32503.hselasky@c2i.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Some input from the sideline reading this discussion. As a FreeBSD'er I would very much like to see two things happen: - vtunerc goes into userspace like a client/server daemon pair using CUSE and can support _any_ /dev/dvb/adapter, also those created by CUSE itself. That means I could potentially use vtunerc in FreeBSD with drivers like cx88: http://corona.homeunix.net/cx88wiki - DVB-X solution in Linux gets mmap support to avoid endless copying of data between kernel and userspace. --HPS