Johannes Stezenbach: > Some /proc entries would be nice for status and statistics, > e.g. show the number of active filters, maybe count the > TS packets or bytes etc.
As you mention, it remembers me about an article that said that a long term goal for Linux would be to be able to configure stuff through small devices, rather than /proc if I recall correctly, for configuration. That is you'd do: echo 12211000 > /dev/dvb0/frontend/frequency echo H > /dev/dvb0/frontend/polarity echo 22000000 /dev/dvb0/frontend/symbolrate etc. 'cat' the same to see an ASCII version of the current state. Then bingo, easy debugging from an ordinary shell, instant bindings for any scripting or otherwise language, complete removal of the C API, and no nasty ioctl (which is one of the great uglyness of Unix) anymore. I don't know if this is something already started in 2.5 or just a mere proposal which is floating around. If there's no infrastructure already in there, it would arguably not be wise to do it alone in DVB. It does require devfs or some equivalent of course, and I suspect old style devices may still be supported in 2.5. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.