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    SubjectRe: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driver because of worrying about possible misusage?
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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.
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