On Monday 16 February 2009 18:48:13 wk wrote: > The last week two guys were kindly asking here on the list where to find > a written DVB-API v5 documentation, > but nobody of the dvb driver community was answering. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg01350.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg01300.html > > Does that mean that: > - dvb developers are currently not interested in application developers > integrating new DVB-API v5? or.. > - no dvb developer reading that list knows something about > documentation? or.. > - does it simply not exist, so who is working on that api documentation > stuff? I do know that the main dvb devs involved in this api are very busy lately, but that's no excuse for not providing a document in the Documentation/dvb directory. Steve, Mike, spend a few hours in a weekend to document this API! Proper documentation should be a hard requirement before allowing new APIs in the kernel IMHO. Regards, Hans > > > The offical documentation found on linuxtv.org is outdated and already 5 > years old, and describes only api v3. > See http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/linux-dvb-api-1.0.0.pdf > > Please read also the announcements on linuxtv: > http://www.linuxtv.org/news.php?entry=2008-09-23.mchehab > [quote] > Some improvements were proposed by the LinuxTV developers, in order to > improve the S2API, including: > ... > * Update DVB API documentation to reflect the API changes;" > [/quote] > > But also this statement is already now five months old, > so i guess documentation should be finished meanwhile or at least > started and usable/redistributable.. > > Is it possible to get some information on that topic? > > -Winfried > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
