Re: [PATCH 00/15] DVB Frontend Documentation patches

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 07-06-2011 22:45, Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
> This series of patches updates the DVB v5 documentation, sinchronizing
> the current implementation with the API spec.
> Among other things, it:
> 	- adds a logic that discovers API gaps between the header
> 	  file and the API specs;
> 	- adds/fixes the DVB S2API (DVBv5) additions;
> 	- adds the FE_ATSC frontend descriptions (both v3 and v5);
> 	- adds a relation of DVBv5 parameters for usage for each
> 	  supported delivery system.
> 
> The API updates were made at the best effort basis, by doing a sort
> of "reverse engineering" approach, e. g., by looking at the code
> and trying to figure out what changed, why and how. Due to that,
> I bet people will find errors on it. Also, English is not my native
> language, and I didn't have time for doing a language review.
> 
> so I'm sure that language/style/typo fixes are needed.
> 
> So, I'd like to encourage people to carefully read the docs and
> send us patches with fixes.
> 
> Anyway, as the situation after those patches are better than before them,
> I'm pushing it to the main repository. This helps to review, as the
> linuxtv scripts will re-format the DocBook into html.

The linuxtv API specs were updated at linuxtv.org. For those that want 
to review, the changes were at chapter 9 of the API spec[1], mainly at:

http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/dvb_frontend.html
http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/FE_GET_SET_PROPERTY.html
http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/frontend_h.html

[1] http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/

Cheers,
Mauro.