On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Gerald Dachs <v...@dachsweb.de> wrote: > Am Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:09:42 -0800 > schrieb VDR User <user....@gmail.com>: > >> > b) have a beginning of dvb device hotplug - if dvb devices are >> > discovered on demand, its a good chance at a later stage to also add >> > and remove cards on the fly. There is sure some notification >> > required from udev to vdr so it can keep internal reference of the >> > how many devices are there. >> >> I wonder if this is actually useful. Is there anyone that would >> need/want this in the real world? > > In which world did you live the last months ;) ? Sorry, I couldn't > insist. > > Our VDR-Distribution yaVDR is optimized for a short boot. With old > fashioned PCI cards you can get down to 6 seconds boot time since grub, > but if one of our user decides to buy another p. e. usb device, we > have to delay the boot up to 30 seconds to allow the usb device to get > ready. With device hotplugging there would be no need to wait for this > device and the user would already see tv 30 seconds earlier. Believe me > there are users that thinks this matters.
I'm a fan of short boot times. Are there that many users that are power cycling their pc's frequently? Of all the pc's I use be them Windows or Linux, work or personal, hardly any of them are rebooted. Really only my test boxes (which are intended) or in the event of a power loss or so due to very bad weather. Of course that's just my usage and everybody has their own. I just don't see that this is a situation that's even remotely common. I'm not for or against the idea. I just wonder if there's significant need to distract Klaus away from other things people have been needing/wanting for quite a long time. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
