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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-03-04 10:21:39 +0100 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-14 10:31:49 +0200 |
commit | 54f38fcae536ea202ce7d6a359521492fba30c1f (patch) | |
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media: docs: move uAPI book to userspace-api/media
Since 2017, there is an space reserved for userspace API,
created by changeset 1d596dee3862 ("docs: Create a user-space API guide").
As the media subsystem was one of the first subsystems to use
Sphinx, until this patch, we were keeping things on a separate
place.
Let's just use the new location, as having all uAPI altogether
will likely make things easier for developers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/net.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/net.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..084f33d1ba28 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/net.rst @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +.. 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 + +.. _net: + +###################### +Digital TV Network API +###################### + +The Digital TV net device controls the mapping of data packages that are part +of a transport stream to be mapped into a virtual network interface, +visible through the standard Linux network protocol stack. + +Currently, two encapsulations are supported: + +- `Multi Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Encapsulation>`__ + +- `Ultra Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_Lightweight_Encapsulation>`__ + +In order to create the Linux virtual network interfaces, an application +needs to tell to the Kernel what are the PIDs and the encapsulation +types that are present on the transport stream. This is done through +``/dev/dvb/adapter?/net?`` device node. The data will be available via +virtual ``dvb?_?`` network interfaces, and will be controlled/routed via +the standard ip tools (like ip, route, netstat, ifconfig, etc). + +Data types and and ioctl definitions are defined via ``linux/dvb/net.h`` +header. + + +.. _net_fcalls: + +Digital TV net Function Calls +############################# + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + net-types + net-add-if + net-remove-if + net-get-if |