[linux-dvb] Re: C/A routing Question

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Florian Schirmer wrote:
> 
> >For point 4, the h/w that I am using does allow the capability to discard 
> >all packets until the PUSI flag is found in a TS header (after which all 
> >TS packets are matched).  This feature just reduces the amount of packets to
> >handle/copy/parse etc.   For h/w that didn't implement it, it would
> >probably be best to implement it in kernel space.  In this way, a user 
> >space process that opened up a fd for a filter on a SI table would get 
> >back the complete 1024 or 4096 bytes of the section table without having 
> >to worry about any additional parsing.
> 
> Just use that feature of you hw. It doesnt make any sense to deliver
> incomplete data. If your hw cant handle it just route it to the dvb-core. It
> will take care of it and discard the data. No need to worry about it ;-)

Yes, it's no problem to use this hardware feature in the section
filter implementation. There's just no need to expose it in the API.

Regards,
Johannes


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