The media's admin guide is currently just a group of not-connected docs. Add an introduction chapter for it to start making sense to a random reader. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst | 2 ++ Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst index 6e5e6bdb6d4b..f79d4f1e05ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Video4Linux (V4L) driver-specific documentation :maxdepth: 5 :numbered: + intro + cardlist v4l-with-ir diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9b6399fd904f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +============ +Introduction +============ + +The media subsystem consists on Linux support for several different types +of devices: + +- Audio and video grabbers; +- PC and Laptop Cameras; +- Complex cameras found on Embedded hardware; +- Analog and digital TV; +- HDMI Customer Electronics Control (CEC); +- Multi-touch input devices; +- Remote Controllers; +- Media encoders and decoders. + +Due to the diversity of devices, the subsystem provides several different +APIs: + +- Remote Controller API; +- HDMI CEC API; +- Video4Linux API; +- Media controller API; +- Video4Linux Request API (experimental); +- Digital TV API (also known as DVB API). -- 2.25.2
