On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Gerald Dachs vdr@dachsweb.de wrote:
Am Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:09:42 -0800 schrieb VDR User user.vdr@gmail.com:
b) have a beginning of dvb device hotplug - if dvb devices are discovered on demand, its a good chance at a later stage to also add and remove cards on the fly. There is sure some notification required from udev to vdr so it can keep internal reference of the how many devices are there.
I wonder if this is actually useful. Is there anyone that would need/want this in the real world?
In which world did you live the last months ;) ? Sorry, I couldn't insist.
Our VDR-Distribution yaVDR is optimized for a short boot. With old fashioned PCI cards you can get down to 6 seconds boot time since grub, but if one of our user decides to buy another p. e. usb device, we have to delay the boot up to 30 seconds to allow the usb device to get ready. With device hotplugging there would be no need to wait for this device and the user would already see tv 30 seconds earlier. Believe me there are users that thinks this matters.
I'm a fan of short boot times. Are there that many users that are power cycling their pc's frequently? Of all the pc's I use be them Windows or Linux, work or personal, hardly any of them are rebooted. Really only my test boxes (which are intended) or in the event of a power loss or so due to very bad weather. Of course that's just my usage and everybody has their own. I just don't see that this is a situation that's even remotely common.
I'm not for or against the idea. I just wonder if there's significant need to distract Klaus away from other things people have been needing/wanting for quite a long time.