# Martin Husemann 2007-06-11:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:11:04PM +0200, Jachym Holecek wrote:
> > I don't agree -- imagine you have a security bug in the default kernel
> > codec, you should be able to recompile the kernel with a different one
> > and have proplib just deal with it. For this to work, the kernel needs
> > to expose the list of codecs it supports -- pavel@ suggested a sysctl
> > with the result of prop_codec_list().
> 
> That is fine with me, as long as I can create a kernel codec list of size 1 ;-)

Yep, that's "supported usage" ;-)

> Still, the ioctl code needs to do something special, like query that sysctl
> and select a codec based on the result.

Right. Added on my TODO.

> My main point was: the "default codec" selection could be quite different
> for userland and ioctl.

Agreed.

	-- Jachym