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On 01/10/2013 09:41 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 09:38 PM, Manu Abraham wrote:
>> The format can be definitely changed. There's no issue to it.
> 
> No you cannot. Applications depend on that, it's part of the dvb ABI. If
> you changed that, you would do the same mistake as Mauro let it flowing
> through his tree and it was pointed out by Linus in the link you sent...

Id you provide an abstraction library, convert all applications to use
that instead of the files, you can change them then. Not any time before.

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js