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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>2015-05-07 22:12:40 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>2016-01-11 12:18:52 -0200
commit4ae1723af80ce5a23fa5bc6db1534265af0d6107 (patch)
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parent4376679a3426c88caba883bcaf4e9af04eba6d9d (diff)
downloadlinux-4ae1723af80ce5a23fa5bc6db1534265af0d6107.tar.gz
[media] DocBook: update descriptions for the media controller entities
Cleanup the media controller entities description:
- remove MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE and MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV entity
  types, as they don't mean anything;
- add MEDIA_ENT_T_UNKNOWN with a proper description;
- remove ALSA and FB entity types. Those should not be used, as
  the types are deprecated. We'll soon be adidng ALSA, but with
  a different entity namespace;
- improve the description of some entities.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml47
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml
index 32a783635649..13d0b5891fb7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml
@@ -179,70 +179,67 @@
         <colspec colname="c2"/>
 	<tbody valign="top">
 	  <row>
-	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>Unknown device node</entry>
+	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_UNKNOWN</constant> and <constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN</constant></entry>
+	    <entry>Unknown entity. That generally indicates that
+	    a driver didn't initialize properly the entity, with is a Kernel bug</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_VIDEO</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>V4L video, radio or vbi device node</entry>
+	    <entry>V4L video streaming input or output entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
-	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE_FB</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>Frame buffer device node</entry>
+	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_VBI</constant></entry>
+	    <entry>V4L VBI streaming input or output entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
-	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE_ALSA</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>ALSA card</entry>
+	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SWRADIO</constant></entry>
+	    <entry>V4L Software Digital Radio (SDR) streaming input or output entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMOD</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>DVB frontend devnode</entry>
+	    <entry>DVB demodulator entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMUX</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>DVB demux devnode</entry>
+	    <entry>DVB demux entity. Can be implemented in hardware or in Kernelspace</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_TSOUT</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>DVB DVR devnode</entry>
+	    <entry>DVB Transport Stream output entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_CA</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>DVB CAM devnode</entry>
+	    <entry>DVB Conditional Access module (CAM) entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMOD_NET_DECAP</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>DVB network devnode</entry>
-	  </row>
-	  <row>
-	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>Unknown V4L sub-device</entry>
+	    <entry>DVB network ULE/MLE de-encapsulation entity. Can be implemented in hardware or in Kernelspace</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_SENSOR</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>Video sensor</entry>
+	    <entry>Camera image sensor entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_FLASH</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>Flash controller</entry>
+	    <entry>Flash controller entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_LENS</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>Lens controller</entry>
+	    <entry>Lens controller entity</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_DECODER</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>Video decoder, the basic function of the video decoder is to
-	    accept analogue video from a wide variety of sources such as
+	    <entry>Analog video decoder, the basic function of the video decoder
+	    is to accept analogue video from a wide variety of sources such as
 	    broadcast, DVD players, cameras and video cassette recorders, in
-	    either NTSC, PAL or HD format and still occasionally SECAM, separate
-	    it into its component parts, luminance and chrominance, and output
-	    it in some digital video standard, with appropriate embedded timing
+	    either NTSC, PAL, SECAM or HD format, separating the stream
+	    into its component parts, luminance and chrominance, and output
+	    it in some digital video standard, with appropriate timing
 	    signals.</entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>
 	    <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_TUNER</constant></entry>
-	    <entry>TV and/or radio tuner</entry>
+	    <entry>Digital TV, analog TV, radio and/or software radio tuner</entry>
 	  </row>
 	</tbody>
       </tgroup>