[mythtv] [Patch] copy and paste bug in channelsettings.cpp

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat Sep 25 21:13:29 EDT 2004


On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:02 pm, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Sunday 26 September 2004 00:14, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> > Why, they are never used at the same time, since a card can't be both
> > dvb-s/c and dvb-t...because then it will have two frontends, which will
> > be enumerated in the dev directory as adapterx/frontend0 and
> > adapterx/frontend1.
>
> One more thing I want to mention is that the settings api was crippeling me
> so much that I could not make the separate dvb-s/c/t settings screens I was
> hoping to develop.

How so?  I've not found the settings code incapable of doing anything that 
I've needed it to do.  Well, aside from fit in graphically, but that's being 
addressed.

> Then the internal usage of data fields would not be 
> visible to the user. Also the statement above is a bit false, because card
> should really be replaced with frontend. The MythTV dvb code also does not
> support multiple frontends/demuxes on a single card, which apparently is
> not used in other hardware than real stbs.
>
> The approach of sharing data fields in dvb has been accepted into the linux
> kernel a long time ago, so I guess what your opinion of what is 'bad
> design' is a bit outdated. And you should care not to give these complaints
> only to the dvb code just out of convinience, as I have found several major
> design-flaws in the core-myth code.

You keep saying that, so, why bother posting anymore?

Isaac


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