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6 .. Documentation/media/uapi/fdl-appendix.rst.
8 .. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
10 .. include:: <isonum.txt>
14 ########################
15 Part II - Digital TV API
16 ########################
20 This API is also known as Linux **DVB API**.
22 It it was originally written to support the European digital TV
23 standard (DVB), and later extended to support all digital TV standards.
25 In order to avoid confusion, within this document, it was opted to refer to
26 it, and to associated hardware as **Digital TV**.
28 The word **DVB** is reserved to be used for:
30 - the Digital TV API version
31 (e. g. DVB API version 3 or DVB API version 5);
32 - digital TV data types (enums, structs, defines, etc);
33 - digital TV device nodes (``/dev/dvb/...``);
34 - the European DVB standard.
58 **********************
59 Revision and Copyright
60 **********************
64 - J. K. Metzler, Ralph <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
66 - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
68 - O. C. Metzler, Marcus <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>
70 - Original author of the Digital TV API documentation.
72 - Carvalho Chehab, Mauro <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
74 - Ported document to Docbook XML, addition of DVBv5 API, documentation gaps fix.
76 **Copyright** |copy| 2002-2003 : Convergence GmbH
78 **Copyright** |copy| 2009-2017 : Mauro Carvalho Chehab
84 :revision: 2.2.0 / 2017-09-01 (*mcc*)
86 Most gaps between the uAPI document and the Kernel implementation
87 got fixed for the non-legacy API.
89 :revision: 2.1.0 / 2015-05-29 (*mcc*)
91 DocBook improvements and cleanups, in order to document the system calls
92 on a more standard way and provide more description about the current
95 :revision: 2.0.4 / 2011-05-06 (*mcc*)
97 Add more information about DVBv5 API, better describing the frontend
98 GET/SET props ioctl's.
101 :revision: 2.0.3 / 2010-07-03 (*mcc*)
103 Add some frontend capabilities flags, present on kernel, but missing at
107 :revision: 2.0.2 / 2009-10-25 (*mcc*)
109 documents FE_SET_FRONTEND_TUNE_MODE and
110 FE_DISHETWORK_SEND_LEGACY_CMD ioctls.
113 :revision: 2.0.1 / 2009-09-16 (*mcc*)
115 Added ISDB-T test originally written by Patrick Boettcher
118 :revision: 2.0.0 / 2009-09-06 (*mcc*)
120 Conversion from LaTex to DocBook XML. The contents is the same as the
121 original LaTex version.
124 :revision: 1.0.0 / 2003-07-24 (*rjkm*)
126 Initial revision on LaTEX.