Re: [RFC] vtunerc: virtual DVB device - is it ok to NACK driverbecause of worrying about possible misusage?

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Dec 06 2011 - 09:19:31 EST


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.
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