RFC libdvbaccess

[Markus Rechberger]

Hi,

since there are currently multiple DVB backends available across
different operating systems I was thinking about starting a library
called libdvbaccess which more or less should
provide the support for plugins for each DVB or video4linux backend.

For example kaffeine is currently using HAL on FreeBSD, for the Linux
world HAL is now obsolete and KDE is using sysfs for discovering
devices.
Also the design that userspace drivers have to pass everything back to
kernelland does not really seem to be nice, userspace drivers came up
since it's possible
to move USB drivers entirely to userspace. For the future I even
expect that this can be done with PCI/e devices by using the IOMMU
technology.

I'll start to go through some applications (there are not so many dvb
applications anyway) within the next days.

Does anyone have any comments on that?

Regards,
Markus