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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..17c3b062afb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_apis.rst @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, +.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software +.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts +.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at +.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst. +.. +.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections + +.. _legacy_dvb_apis: + +*************************** +Digital TV Deprecated APIs +*************************** + +The APIs described here **should not** be used on new drivers or applications. + +The DVBv3 frontend API has issues with new delivery systems, including +DVB-S2, DVB-T2, ISDB, etc. + +There's just one driver for a very legacy hardware using the Digital TV +audio and video APIs. No modern drivers should use it. Instead, audio and +video should be using the V4L2 and ALSA APIs, and the pipelines should +be set via the Media Controller API. + +.. attention:: + + The APIs described here doesn't necessarily reflect the current + code implementation, as this section of the document was written + for DVB version 1, while the code reflects DVB version 3 + implementation. + + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + frontend_legacy_dvbv3_api + video + audio |