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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@casper.infradead.org
Cc: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 10/15] [media] DocBook/frontend.xml: Recomend the usage of the new API
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:45:37 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110607224537.1d34d54a@pedra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1307496835.git.mchehab@redhat.com>

The old way of setting delivery system parameters were to use
an union with specific per-system parameters. However, as newer
delivery systems required more data, the structure size weren't
enough to fit. So, recomend using the DVBS2API instead.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/frontend.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/frontend.xml
index b1f0123..086e62b 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/frontend.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/frontend.xml
@@ -221,8 +221,20 @@ by</para>
 <section id="dvb-frontend-parameters">
 <title>frontend parameters</title>
 <para>The kind of parameters passed to the frontend device for tuning depend on
-the kind of hardware you are using. All kinds of parameters are combined as an
-union in the FrontendParameters structure:</para>
+the kind of hardware you are using.</para>
+<para>The struct <constant>dvb_frontend_parameters</constant> uses an
+union with specific per-system parameters. However, as newer delivery systems
+required more data, the structure size weren't enough to fit, and just
+extending its size would break the existing applications. So, those parameters
+were replaced by the usage of <link linkend="FE_GET_SET_PROPERTY">
+<constant>FE_GET_PROPERTY/FE_SET_PROPERTY</constant></link> ioctl's. The
+new API is flexible enough to add new parameters to existing delivery systems,
+and to add newer delivery systems.</para>
+<para>So, newer applications should use <link linkend="FE_GET_SET_PROPERTY">
+<constant>FE_GET_PROPERTY/FE_SET_PROPERTY</constant></link> instead, in
+order to be able to support the newer System Delivery like  DVB-S2, DVB-T2,
+DVB-C2, ISDB, etc.</para>
+<para>All kinds of parameters are combined as an union in the FrontendParameters structure:</para>
 <programlisting>
 struct dvb_frontend_parameters {
 	uint32_t frequency;     /&#x22C6; (absolute) frequency in Hz for QAM/OFDM &#x22C6;/
-- 
1.7.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-08  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1307496835.git.mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 01/15] [media] DocBook/Makefile: add references for several dvb structures Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 02/15] [media] DocBook/frontend.xml: Better document fe_type_t Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 03/15] [media] DocBook/frontend.xml: Link DVB S2API parameters Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 04/15] [media] DocBook/frontend.xml: Correlate dvb delivery systems Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 06/15] [media] DocBook/frontend.xml: Better describe the frontend parameters Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 05/15] [media] DocBook/frontend.xml: add references for some missing info Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 07/15] [media] DocBook/dvbproperty.xml: Document the remaining S2API parameters Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 08/15] [media] DocBook/dvbproperty.xml: Use links for all parameters Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 09/15] [media] DocBook/dvbproperty.xml: Reorganize the parameters Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 11/15] [media] DocBook/dvbproperty.xml: Document the terrestrial delivery systems Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 12/15] [media] DocBook: Finish synchronizing the frontend API Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 13/15] [media] DocBook/dvbproperty.xml: Add Cable standards Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 15/15] [media] DocBook/dvbproperty.xml: Add Satellite standards Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-06-08  1:45 ` [PATCH 14/15] [media] DocBook/dvbproperty.xml: Add ATSC standard Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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