2017-09-01 1:46 GMT+02:00 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > The DVB documentation was negligected for a long time, with > resulted on several gaps between the API description and its > documentation. > > I'm doing a new reading at the documentation. As result of it, > this series: > > - improves the introductory chapter, making it more generic; > - Do some adjustments at the frontend API, using kernel-doc > when possible. > - Remove unused APIs at DVB demux. I suspect that the drivers > implementing such APIs were either never merged upstream, > or the API itself were never used or was deprecated a long > time ago. In any case, it doesn't make any sense to carry > on APIs that aren't properly documented, nor are used on the > upstream Kernel. > > With this patch series, the gap between documentation and > code is solved for 3 DVB APIs: > > - Frontend API; > - Demux API; > - Net API. > > There is still a gap at the CA API that I'll try to address when I > have some time[1]. > > [1] There's a gap also on the legacy audio, video and OSD APIs, > but, as those are used only by a single very old deprecated > hardware (av7110), it is probably not worth the efforts. > I agree that av7110 is very very old piece of hw (but it is already in my hall of fame because of its Skystar 1 incarnation as first implementation of DVB in Linux) and it is sad that we still don't have at least one driver for any SoC with embedded DVB devices. I understand that the main issue is that no any DVB-enabled SoC vendor is interested in upstreaming theirs code, but I still hope it will change in near future(*) Without having full-featured DVB device in vanilla, we surely don't get some parts of DVB API covered. I can imagine that when somebody comes with such full-featured device he wants to reinvent just removed bits. It's my 5 cents /Honza (*) My favourite is HiSilicon with very nice Hi3798 4K chip with announced support from Linaro and already available devboard for reasonable price. PS: I'm in no any way connected with HiSilicon nor any other DVB-enabled SoC vendor. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
