[linux-dvb] Re: refactoring

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

Ralph Metzler wrote:

> Holger Waechtler writes:
> > >Holger Waechtler writes:
> > You should try to encapsulate them at lease so that porting is made 
> > easy. You know that there have been several approaches in the past to 
> No, encapsulation adds unnecessary overhead which I do not need.
>  
sorry, but I can't see much overhead in a library-alike architecture 
compared to a master/client or extension-based interface.

> > port the linux-dvb code to BSD, MacOS-X and even the GPL'd Windows BDA 
> > drivers on sourceforge mention the linux driver as codebase:
> > 
>  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bdadev/NovaTDriver/saa7146.cpp?rev=1.11&view=auto
>
> So?
>  
I wish the linux SAA7146 driver would be as simple to understand and the 
code as easy to read.

Holger