Commit d071c833 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab

[media] dvbdev: document most of the functions/data structs

Document the most relevant functions and data structs for
developers that are working with the DVB subsystem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 35848bf0
......@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ X!Isound/sound_firmware.c
!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.h
!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_math.h
!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.h
!Idrivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.h
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Remote Controller devices</title>
!Iinclude/media/rc-core.h
......
......@@ -57,6 +57,25 @@
struct dvb_frontend;
/**
* struct dvb_adapter - represents a Digital TV adapter using Linux DVB API
*
* @num: Number of the adapter
* @list_head: List with the DVB adapters
* @device_list: List with the DVB devices
* @name: Name of the adapter
* @proposed_mac: proposed MAC address for the adapter
* @priv: private data
* @device: pointer to struct device
* @module: pointer to struct module
* @mfe_shared: mfe shared: indicates mutually exclusive frontends
* Thie usage of this flag is currently deprecated
* @mfe_dvbdev: Frontend device in use, in the case of MFE
* @mfe_lock: Lock to prevent using the other frontends when MFE is
* used.
* @mdev: pointer to struct media_device, used when the media
* controller is used.
*/
struct dvb_adapter {
int num;
struct list_head list_head;
......@@ -78,7 +97,34 @@ struct dvb_adapter {
#endif
};
/**
* struct dvb_device - represents a DVB device node
*
* @list_head: List head with all DVB devices
* @fops: pointer to struct file_operations
* @adapter: pointer to the adapter that holds this device node
* @type: type of the device: DVB_DEVICE_SEC, DVB_DEVICE_FRONTEND,
* DVB_DEVICE_DEMUX, DVB_DEVICE_DVR, DVB_DEVICE_CA, DVB_DEVICE_NET
* @minor: devnode minor number. Major number is always DVB_MAJOR.
* @id: device ID number, inside the adapter
* @readers: Initialized by the caller. Each call to open() in Read Only mode
* decreases this counter by one.
* @writers: Initialized by the caller. Each call to open() in Read/Write
* mode decreases this counter by one.
* @users: Initialized by the caller. Each call to open() in any mode
* decreases this counter by one.
* @wait_queue: wait queue, used to wait for certain events inside one of
* the DVB API callers
* @kernel_ioctl: callback function used to handle ioctl calls from userspace.
* @name: Name to be used for the device at the Media Controller
* @entity: pointer to struct media_entity associated with the device node
* @pads: pointer to struct media_pad associated with @entity;
* @priv: private data
*
* This structure is used by the DVB core (frontend, CA, net, demux) in
* order to create the device nodes. Usually, driver should not initialize
* this struct diretly.
*/
struct dvb_device {
struct list_head list_head;
const struct file_operations *fops;
......@@ -109,19 +155,55 @@ struct dvb_device {
void *priv;
};
/**
* dvb_register_adapter - Registers a new DVB adapter
*
* @adap: pointer to struct dvb_adapter
* @name: Adapter's name
* @module: initialized with THIS_MODULE at the caller
* @device: pointer to struct device that corresponds to the device driver
* @adapter_nums: Array with a list of the numbers for @dvb_register_adapter;
* to select among them. Typically, initialized with:
* DVB_DEFINE_MOD_OPT_ADAPTER_NR(adapter_nums)
*/
int dvb_register_adapter(struct dvb_adapter *adap, const char *name,
struct module *module, struct device *device,
short *adapter_nums);
extern int dvb_register_adapter(struct dvb_adapter *adap, const char *name,
struct module *module, struct device *device,
short *adapter_nums);
extern int dvb_unregister_adapter (struct dvb_adapter *adap);
extern int dvb_register_device (struct dvb_adapter *adap,
struct dvb_device **pdvbdev,
const struct dvb_device *template,
void *priv,
int type);
/**
* dvb_unregister_adapter - Unregisters a DVB adapter
*
* @adap: pointer to struct dvb_adapter
*/
int dvb_unregister_adapter(struct dvb_adapter *adap);
extern void dvb_unregister_device (struct dvb_device *dvbdev);
/**
* dvb_register_device - Registers a new DVB device
*
* @adap: pointer to struct dvb_adapter
* @pdvbdev: pointer to the place where the new struct dvb_device will be
* stored
* @template: Template used to create &pdvbdev;
* @device: pointer to struct device that corresponds to the device driver
* @adapter_nums: Array with a list of the numbers for @dvb_register_adapter;
* to select among them. Typically, initialized with:
* DVB_DEFINE_MOD_OPT_ADAPTER_NR(adapter_nums)
* @priv: private data
* @type: type of the device: DVB_DEVICE_SEC, DVB_DEVICE_FRONTEND,
* DVB_DEVICE_DEMUX, DVB_DEVICE_DVR, DVB_DEVICE_CA, DVB_DEVICE_NET
*/
int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap,
struct dvb_device **pdvbdev,
const struct dvb_device *template,
void *priv,
int type);
/**
* dvb_unregister_device - Unregisters a DVB device
*
* @dvbdev: pointer to struct dvb_device
*/
void dvb_unregister_device(struct dvb_device *dvbdev);
#ifdef CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER_DVB
void dvb_create_media_graph(struct dvb_adapter *adap);
......@@ -136,17 +218,17 @@ static inline void dvb_create_media_graph(struct dvb_adapter *adap) {}
#define dvb_register_media_controller(a, b) {}
#endif
extern int dvb_generic_open (struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
extern int dvb_generic_release (struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
extern long dvb_generic_ioctl (struct file *file,
int dvb_generic_open (struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
int dvb_generic_release (struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
long dvb_generic_ioctl (struct file *file,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
/* we don't mess with video_usercopy() any more,
we simply define out own dvb_usercopy(), which will hopefully become
generic_usercopy() someday... */
extern int dvb_usercopy(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg,
int (*func)(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, void *arg));
int dvb_usercopy(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg,
int (*func)(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, void *arg));
/** generic DVB attach function. */
#ifdef CONFIG_MEDIA_ATTACH
......
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