From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.4.199]) by www.linuxtv.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KZucs-00074u-EK for linux-dvb@linuxtv.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:38:27 +0200 Received: from steven-toths-macbook-pro.local (ool-18bfe594.dyn.optonline.net [24.191.229.148]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0K6H00NBVIR311E0@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for linux-dvb@linuxtv.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:37:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:37:51 -0400 From: Steven Toth In-reply-to: <48BAAEC1.5070105@h-i-s.nl> To: Jan Hoogenraad Message-id: <48BB0F2F.3070806@linuxtv.org> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <48B8400A.9030409@linuxtv.org> <48BAAEC1.5070105@h-i-s.nl> Cc: linux-dvb Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] DVB-S2 / Multiproto and future modulation support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-dvb-bounces@linuxtv.org Errors-To: linux-dvb-bounces+mchehab=infradead.org@linuxtv.org List-ID: Jan Hoogenraad wrote: > Dear people. > > Let me introduce my position. I've bought an unsupported board. > The hardware developer gave me some code, derived from the Windows > driver. I'm trying to tidy up the code sufficiently for inclusion. > > What bothers me about this discussion, is that NO technical facts pro or > contra are exchanged, and that it seems like a personal and/or progress > issue. > Looking at: > http://linuxtv.org/docs.php > I find that neither party includes an update on the Documentation tree > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/file/tip/linux/Documentation/dvb/ > This means that actually trying to find out the pros and cons of what is > proposed must be derived from reading all the code and/or walking > through some years' worth of mail group contents. > > So my questions are: > 1) Why are the latex sources of the API documentation still maintained > in CVS ? > http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/DVB/doc/ > 2) Are both solutions bit-for-bit compatible with the interfaces as > published on : > http://linuxtv.org/downloads/linux-dvb-api-1.0.0.pdf > 3) If so: what is the problem ? Both conform to the standard. > 4) If not so: please provide updated documentation for both solutions, > so that we can make a trade-off based on high-level descriptions and > consistency rather than based on lots of code of either side. Sorry Jan, I don't maintain the documentation so I can't comment on that. > > So far, my reaction (for what it's worth) is a NACK. Understood. Thanks anyway for taking the time to review and provide feedback. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb