linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] DVB Satellite Channel Routing support for DVB-S

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Message-Id: <E063370D-7EC3-4E21-8B25-AE3064FA6FB1@gmx.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:01:47 +0100
From:	Thomas Schlöter <thomas.schloeter@....net>
To:	Andreas Oberritter <obi@...uxtv.org>
Cc:	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DVB Satellite Channel Routing support for DVB-S


Am 10.01.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Andreas Oberritter:
> 
>> - In many TV recording applications there is no support for SCR and it would be harder to implement in these. For VDR, there is a patch which is difficult to configure and has some technical limitations. In MythTV and XMBC I could not find any support for SCR. Their Wiki pages or forums say, that there are no plans for Unicable support as it would take huge changes.
> 
> Many of these applications didn't or don't support DiSEqC 1.1
> (uncommittted switches) or DiSEqC 1.2 (rotor commands) or USALS. Still,
> we don't put this logic into the kernel to make their life easier.

> Don't add unneeded complexity to the kernel.

I think this is the point we are talking about and I understand the feature might not be critical enough to justify a kernel implementation.

Regards,
Thomas--
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