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

From: RÃmi Denis-Courmont
Date: Tue Dec 06 2011 - 09:19:36 EST


Le mardi 6 dÃcembre 2011 15:49:11 Andreas Oberritter, vous avez Ãcrit :
> You don't need to wait for write-only operations. Basically all demux
> ioctls are write-only. Since vtunerc is using dvb-core's software demux
> *locally*, errors for invalid arguments etc. will be returned as usual.

That's a limitation, not a feature.
You should not transmit unwanted programs over the network, nor copy them to
kernel space.

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