[linux-dvb] Best way for multiple frontends on one dvb-adapter

[Manu Abraham]

Patrick Boettcher wrote:

>
>
> As Ralph pointed out, there are applications out there, which are not 
> working with dvrX and demuxX (X >= 1). So in that case it's maybe 
> better to register a dvb_adapter per stream-input to be more 
> compatible with applications.
>

It would be better to fix the broken applications, than to fix the 
applications that are broken in software. IMHO, this is a very bad 
workaround.

I remember somebody suggesting me to incorporate for a bug in an 
application's CI stack for CA_PMT length in the driver since the 
application was doing it wrong.

IMHO, driver/kernelspace is not the place to fix userspace application 
bugs/design.

I would say that the application needs to be fixed in that case , 
inorder to use the proper frontend/dvr/demux. I had been working a bit 
on a dual DVB-S card on the same approach. (But still struggling a bit 
on the tuner part a bit for now, since the same approach is used on both 
card types). ie,

/dev/dvb/adapterX
    /dev/dvb/adapterX/frontend0
    /dev/dvb/adapterX/demux0
    /dev/dvb/adapterX/ca0
    /dev/dvb/adapterX/dvr0

    /dev/dvb/adapterX/frontend1
    /dev/dvb/adapterX/demux1
    /dev/dvb/adapterX/ca1
    /dev/dvb/adapterX/dvr1

/dev/dvb/adapterY
    /dev/dvb/adapterY/frontend0
    /dev/dvb/adapterY/demux0
    /dev/dvb/adapterY/ca0
    /dev/dvb/adapterY/dvr0

    /dev/dvb/adapterY/frontend1
    /dev/dvb/adapterY/demux1
    /dev/dvb/adapterY/ca1
    /dev/dvb/adapterY/dvr1
      

Manu