[linux-dvb] Re: V4 API proposal

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Ralph Metzler wrote:
>  > B) Generics input device
>  > 
>  > Something like frontends but not bound to frontends. So you are able to
>  > query/set it up properly. Maybe frontends can be integrated there too? Just
>  > a quick idea. This will allow us to have all sorts of different inputs
>  > (memory or network based, hdd, ...). Probably the way to go?
>
> Sounds good.
> For frontends this would also allow the addition of new hardware with new 
> parameters/properties (e.g. ATSC) without changing any ioctls.
until now the term frontend was used similiar to NIM or Network 
Interface Module. Since a LVDS or HDD input is rarely a network 
interface the term 'input' is probably much better and more intuitive...

Holger



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