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Subject: Re: kaffeine-1.0 and webcamd based DVB-T?
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On 8/23/10 3:13 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Monday 23 August 2010 00:35:33 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> Actually, I'd prefer if there was a file or socket from which I could
>> read to get this data.  hps, is this doable?  That is, could I have a
>> file or socket that would allow me to map a USB bus/addr to a video (or
>> dvb) device ID?
> 
> I could add an IOCTL that reports that. I think a socket would be overkill.

An ioctl would be fine.  I was thinking of a socket a la devd, but an
ioctl or static PID-like file would work as well.

Joe

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