On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com> wrote: > With all these series applied, it is now possible to use frontend 0 > for all delivery systems. As the current tools don't support changing > the delivery system, the dvb-fe-tool (on my experimental tree[1]) can now > be used to change between them:
Hi Mauro, While from a functional standpoint I think this is a good change (and we probably should have done it this way all along), is there not concern that this could be interpreted by regular users as a regression? Right now they get two frontends, and they can use all their existing tools. We're moving to a model where if users upgraded their kernel they would now require some new userland tool to do something that the kernel was allowing them to do previously. Sure, it's not "ABI breakage" in the classic sense but the net effect is the same - stuff that used to work stops working and now they need new tools or to recompile their existing tools to include new functionality (which as you mentioned, none of those tools have today). Perhaps you would consider some sort of module option that would let users fall back to the old behavior? Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
