On Monday 16 February 2009 22:39:44 wk wrote: > Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > As always we continue to welcome patches, including for the > > documentation. Instead of bitching and moaning, how about you roll up > > your sleeves and actually help out? > > > > Let's try to remember that pretty much all the developers here are > > volunteers, so berating them for not doing things fast enough for your > > personal taste is not really very productive. > > > > Regards, > > > > Devin > > Devin, > > can you please explain, how others should contribute to an dvb api if > - the only DVB API file to be found is a pdf file, and therefore not > editable. Which files exactly to be edited you are writing of? 10 minutes searching revealed that the sources are still available in the old CVS repository: http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/DVB/doc/dvbapi/ So we need a volunteer to take this, merge it into the current v4l-dvb master repository (just as I did recently with the v4l2 API spec) and then start updating the docs bit by bit. Regards, Hans > - one doesn't know which ioctls exist for what function, which return > codes and arguments, how to understand and to use..? > > What you suggest is almost impossible to someone not perfectly familiar > with the drivers, only for dvb experts who have written at least a bunch > of drivers. > Its something different than sending patches for one single driver where > some bug/improvement was found. > > On the other hand, in principle a driver without existing api doc is > useless. Nobody can use it, the same for drivers with undocumented new > features. > > Regards, > 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
