Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:49:00 +0530 | Subject | Re: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driver because of worrying about possible misusage? | From | Manu Abraham <> |
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >> On 06.12.2011 12:21, Mark Brown wrote: >> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:41:38PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: > >> >> Are you serious? Lower networking layers should be transparent to the >> >> upper layers. You don't implement VPN or say TCP in all of your >> >> applications, do you? These are just some more made-up arguments which >> >> don't have anything to do with the use cases I explained earlier. > >> > For real time applications it does make a big difference - decisions >> > taken at the application level can greatly impact end application >> > performance. For example with VoIP on a LAN you can get great audio > >> Can you please explain how this relates to the topic we're discussing? > > Your assertatation that applications should ignore the underlying > transport (which seems to be a big part of what you're saying) isn't > entirely in line with reality.
A point to be noted:
DVB itself is a network protocol; If you have a satellite network, most likely it is a DVB network where the whole network packets are encapsulated within DVB (MPEG TS) packets. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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