On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Steffen Barszus steffenbpunkt@googlemail.com wrote:
a) save some energy - if DVB devices are not opened all the time, the driver has the chance to put it into standby saving some heat, energy and lifetime of the cards
There are a couple cards that consume a lot of power iirc so this could actually be useful for users of those cards. But what about performance/lag? And also how healthy is it to constantly put a device in and out of standby?
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?