Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 01/28/08 02:49, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Ludwig Nussel wrote: >>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>>> On 01/27/08 16:25, Ludwig Nussel wrote: >>>>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>>>>> - Implemented handling of DVB-S2 (thanks to Marco Schlüßler and Reinhald >>>>>> Nissl >>>>>> for a patch that was used to implement this). VDR now requires the >>>>>> "multiproto" >>>>>> DVB driver, e.g. from http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto. >>>>> Would it be possible to make that optional via compile time define? >>>> I guess so, but I'm not going to ;-) >>>> This new driver appears to be stable enough now - at least I've >>>> been using it for a few days now without problems. >>> *sigh* messing with kernel stuff sucks. Does a vdr built with the >>> multiproto headers at least also work on vanilla kernels ie stable >>> dvb drivers? That way one would only need to use different headers >>> for building vdr but no extra kernel modules at run time. >>> >> AFAICT, the updated headers can be used along with the old drivers without >> any issues. If not there's an issue with regards to backward compatibility. >> Can you pleas point out the errors that which you see, when you are using >> the updated headers and the old drivers ? > > The new headers work fine with the old driver - if the application > still uses the old API. I've tested that first thing before I switched > to the new API. > > However, I don't see how an application actually using the new API > could work with the old driver.
In the idea that i had, it would look for the API version and issue the ioctls as necessary, similar to what i used in the szap hack. (It was just a hack, for some testing as well as demonstrating the API usage) The hacked szap is here: http://abraham.manu.googlepages.com/szap.c > At any rate, the patch from Ulrich Richter should work for people > insisting to use the old driver. > Regards, Manu _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
