There's a chapter for the legacy APIs. Move the frontend DVBv3 API to it, and update the chapter's introduction accordingly. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/frontend.rst | 1 - Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/frontend.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/frontend.rst index b9cfcad39823..4967c48d46ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/frontend.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/frontend.rst @@ -54,4 +54,3 @@ Data types and ioctl definitions can be accessed by including dvb-fe-read-status dvbproperty frontend_fcalls - frontend_legacy_dvbv3_api diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst index 7eb14d6f729f..e1b2c9c7b620 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst @@ -6,20 +6,27 @@ Digital TV Deprecated APIs *************************** -The APIs described here are kept only for historical reasons. There's -just one driver for a very legacy hardware that uses this API. No modern -drivers should use it. Instead, audio and video should be using the V4L2 -and ALSA APIs, and the pipelines should be set using the Media -Controller API +The APIs described here **should not** be used on new drivers or applications. -.. note:: +The DVBv3 frontend API has issues with new delivery systems, including +DVB-S2, DVB-T2, ISDB, etc. + +There's just one driver for a very legacy hardware using the Digital TV +audio and video APIs. No modern drivers should use it. Instead, audio and +video should be using the V4L2 and ALSA APIs, and the pipelines should +be set via the Media Controller API. + +.. attention:: The APIs described here doesn't necessarily reflect the current - code implementation. + code implementation, as this section of the document was written + for DVB version 1, while the code reflects DVB version 3 + implementation. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + frontend_legacy_dvbv3_api video audio -- 2.13.5 -- 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