On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:02 PM, VDR User <user....@gmail.com> wrote: > No activity in this thread for 2 weeks now. Has there been any progress?
I think I speak on behalf of most LinuxTV developers, when I say that nobody wants to spend their free personal time working on something that might get shot down with such controversy. I have stated that I like Manu's proposal, but I would prefer that the get_property (s2api) interface were used, because it totally provides an interface that is sufficient for this feature. Manu and I agree that these values should all be read at once. I think we all (except Mauro) agree that the behavior within the driver should fetch all statistics at once and return it to userspace as a single structure with all the information as it all relates to each other. Furthermore, I think we all know that we cant just remove the current structures, and we should do something to normalize the current reporting values. The longer this thread gets, the less likely anybody is to do anything about it. Let me state my opinion again: I would like to see a solution merged, and I think Manu's solution is reasonable, although it may be complicated -- if all drivers are updated to support it, then it will all be worth it. The question is, *will* all drivers update to support this? I don't know. We have the S2API's set / get property API -- In my opinion, we should use this API to fetch statistic information and have it return a single atomic structure. Applications can use only the information that they're interested in. In the meanwhile, as a SEPARATE PROJECT, we should do something to standardize the values reported by the CURRENT API across the entire subsystem. This should not be confused with Manu's initiative to create a better API -- we cant remove the current API, but it should be standardized. I volunteer to work on the standardization of the CURRENT Api, and I am all for seeing a new API introduced for better statistical reporting, provided that the get property method is used as an interface, rather than adding new ioctls. However, if we add a new API, we haev to make sure that all the current drivers are updated to support it -- do we have all the information that we need for this? Do we have the manpower and the drive to get it done? My urge to do this work is a strong urge, but I have no desire to do this if people want to continue arguing about it... In the meanwhile, I am working on new drivers for new devices, and this is *much* more interesting that worrying about how strong a signal is for a device that already works. When you folks stop talking about this, that's when I will push the trees containing all the work that I've done already thus far -- we need to standardize the current API, and that has nothing to do with Manu's proposal. We should not confuse standardization the current reporting units with the introduction of a new API -- both should be done, but the more arguing there is about it, the less of a chance that anybody will volunteer their own time to work on it. ...and just to clarify -- I think I said it twice already, but repeating again -- I (mostly) like Manu's proposal, but if we cant update the drivers to support it, then is it worth the trouble? Regards, Mike Krufky -- 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
