what about being able to use aliases like /dev/dvb/dvb_s2_card_one with the -D arg ? (tho it's not really important)
what about a github tree of vdr with your patch already applied ?
Maybe - shouldn't be too bad. :)
Maybe just adding a patch branch to http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/?p=vdr.git;a=summary ? It could also contain some other known patches for 17.7, like the vdr-1.7.17-updatemarks-2.diff or vdr-1.7.17-updatemarks-3.diff...
Mika