From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6474 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750874Ab1FHCUJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:20:09 -0400 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p582K8cj010424 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:20:09 -0400 Received: from [10.3.236.210] (vpn-236-210.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.236.210]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p582K7g1014694 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:20:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4DEEDC57.7050707@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:20:07 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] DVB Frontend Documentation patches References: <20110607224542.597d46bc@pedra> In-Reply-To: <20110607224542.597d46bc@pedra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: Sender: 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.