Re: [PATCH] DVB Satellite Channel Routing support for DVB-S

[Thomas Schlöter]

Am 10.01.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Andreas Oberritter:
> 
>> - In many TV recording applications there is no support for SCR and it would be harder to implement in these. For VDR, there is a patch which is difficult to configure and has some technical limitations. In MythTV and XMBC I could not find any support for SCR. Their Wiki pages or forums say, that there are no plans for Unicable support as it would take huge changes.
> 
> Many of these applications didn't or don't support DiSEqC 1.1
> (uncommittted switches) or DiSEqC 1.2 (rotor commands) or USALS. Still,
> we don't put this logic into the kernel to make their life easier.

> Don't add unneeded complexity to the kernel.

I think this is the point we are talking about and I understand the feature might not be critical enough to justify a kernel implementation.

Regards,
Thomas--
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