[mythtv-users] CielPlus Sky Digibox (UK) Addon decoder card.

[Janne Grunau]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:10:50 Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 01:33 +0200, Janne Grunau wrote:
> >
> > Writing USB-Kernel drivers is not that complicated but depending on
> > the hardware capabilities a libusb based userspace driver might be
> > simpler (no need to design a kernel - userspace interface).
>
> Eh? There's no need to design one. We have V4L2 already.

I really don't know if V4L2 or DVB are appropiate interfaces for the 
device. But since we all know very litte about the device except that 
it delivers a mpeg, nobody can say which interface appropiate.

> That's the whole point of a kernel driver. It makes it easy for other
> projects to use the driver immediately as there's a defined
> interface.

Sure, but the interface has to match the capabilities of the device.

Janne