From: wk <handygewinnspiel@gmx.de>
To: Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>,
Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@gmail.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch review 6/6] radio-mr800: redesign radio->users counter
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:16:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7DDD1C.1030906@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <208cbae30908081208o5a048fb0qdd6c356b0c6d3eb9@mail.gmail.com>
Alexey Klimov schrieb:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Trent Piepho<xyzzy@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Alexey Klimov wrote:
>>
>>> Redesign radio->users counter. Don't allow more that 5 users on radio in
>>>
>> Why?
>>
>
> Well, v4l2 specs says that multiple opens are optional. Honestly, i
> think that five userspace applications open /dev/radio is enough. Btw,
> if too many userspace applications opened radio that means that
> something wrong happened in userspace. And driver can handle such
> situation by disallowing new open calls(returning EBUSY). I can't
> imagine user that runs more than five mplayers or gnomeradios, or
> kradios and so on.
>
> Am i totally wrong here?
>
> Thanks.
>
"I can't imagine.." Funny answer, reminds at the 640kB limit of old
computers.. :)
But if there's no real technical restriction, the driver should not
restrict access a device at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-08 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-08 17:46 [patch review 6/6] radio-mr800: redesign radio->users counter Alexey Klimov
2009-08-08 18:01 ` Trent Piepho
2009-08-08 19:08 ` Alexey Klimov
2009-08-08 20:16 ` wk [this message]
2009-08-09 8:19 ` Hans Verkuil
2009-08-09 11:04 ` Alexey Klimov
2009-08-10 22:24 ` David Ellingsworth
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