On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:45:53 Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:45:18 -0400 Steven Toth (ST) wrote:
>
> ST> I too tend to have multiple remotes, I don't think it's that unusual
> for ST> long standing Hauppauge customers to have many boards with many
> types of ST> remotes.
> ST>
> ST> > It might be better to have an option to explicitly allow old
> Hauppauge ST> > remotes that send 0x00.
> ST> >
> ST> I could live with this. It relegates older remotes but those remotes
> ST> are no longer made. This feels like a good compromise.
>
> How about changing the parameter such that it is a filter mask? The
> default value of 0x0 would accept all remotes. For non-zero values, each
> bit set in the parameter would filter the device address corresponding to
> that bit, e.g. 0x1 would filter address 0x0, 0x80000000 would filter
> address 0x1f, etc.
Seems way to complicated to me. Remember that end users have no idea about
the device addresses, so it should be a simple to understand module option.
So I'd just go with Steve's preference.
Regards,
Hans
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Udo
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Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG
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