Merge branch 'topic/isa' into topic/misc

13 files changed, 374 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
index 1b2dd4fc3db2..ecd35e9d4410 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c
 <!--
 X!Edrivers/base/interface.c
 -->
+!Iinclude/linux/platform_device.h
 !Edrivers/base/platform.c
 !Edrivers/base/bus.c
      </sect1>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbapi.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbapi.xml
index 63c528fee624..e3a97fdd62a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbapi.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/dvbapi.xml
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@
 <othername role="mi">O. C.</othername>
 <affiliation><address><email>rjkm@metzlerbros.de</email></address></affiliation>
 </author>
+</authorgroup>
+<authorgroup>
 <author>
 <firstname>Mauro</firstname>
-<surname>Chehab</surname>
 <othername role="mi">Carvalho</othername>
+<surname>Chehab</surname>
 <affiliation><address><email>mchehab@redhat.com</email></address></affiliation>
 <contrib>Ported document to Docbook XML.</contrib>
 </author>
@@ -23,13 +25,24 @@
 <copyright>
 	<year>2002</year>
 	<year>2003</year>
-	<year>2009</year>
 	<holder>Convergence GmbH</holder>
 </copyright>
+<copyright>
+	<year>2009-2010</year>
+	<holder>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</holder>
+</copyright>
 
 <revhistory>
 <!-- Put document revisions here, newest first. -->
 <revision>
+	<revnumber>2.0.3</revnumber>
+	<date>2010-07-03</date>
+	<authorinitials>mcc</authorinitials>
+	<revremark>
+		Add some frontend capabilities flags, present on kernel, but missing at the specs.
+	</revremark>
+</revision>
+<revision>
 	<revnumber>2.0.2</revnumber>
 	<date>2009-10-25</date>
 	<authorinitials>mcc</authorinitials>
@@ -63,7 +76,7 @@ Added ISDB-T test originally written by Patrick Boettcher
 
 
 <title>LINUX DVB API</title>
-<subtitle>Version 3</subtitle>
+<subtitle>Version 5.2</subtitle>
 <!-- ADD THE CHAPTERS HERE -->
   <chapter id="dvb_introdution">
     &sub-intro;
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.h.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.h.xml
index b99644f5340a..d08e0d401418 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.h.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.h.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ typedef enum fe_caps {
         FE_CAN_8VSB                     = 0x200000,
         FE_CAN_16VSB                    = 0x400000,
         FE_HAS_EXTENDED_CAPS            = 0x800000,   /* We need more bitspace for newer APIs, indicate this. */
+        FE_CAN_TURBO_FEC                = 0x8000000,  /* frontend supports "turbo fec modulation" */
         FE_CAN_2G_MODULATION            = 0x10000000, /* frontend supports "2nd generation modulation" (DVB-S2) */
         FE_NEEDS_BENDING                = 0x20000000, /* not supported anymore, don't use (frontend requires frequency bending) */
         FE_CAN_RECOVER                  = 0x40000000, /* frontend can recover from a cable unplug automatically */
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.xml
index 300ba1f04177..78d756de5906 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/frontend.xml
@@ -64,8 +64,14 @@ a specific frontend type.</para>
 	FE_CAN_BANDWIDTH_AUTO         = 0x40000,
 	FE_CAN_GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO    = 0x80000,
 	FE_CAN_HIERARCHY_AUTO         = 0x100000,
-	FE_CAN_MUTE_TS                = 0x80000000,
-	FE_CAN_CLEAN_SETUP            = 0x40000000
+	FE_CAN_8VSB                   = 0x200000,
+	FE_CAN_16VSB                  = 0x400000,
+	FE_HAS_EXTENDED_CAPS          = 0x800000,
+	FE_CAN_TURBO_FEC              = 0x8000000,
+	FE_CAN_2G_MODULATION          = 0x10000000,
+	FE_NEEDS_BENDING              = 0x20000000,
+	FE_CAN_RECOVER                = 0x40000000,
+	FE_CAN_MUTE_TS                = 0x80000000
 	} fe_caps_t;
 </programlisting>
 </section>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
index 55f12ac37acd..490d862c5f0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
@@ -199,10 +199,33 @@
    may be configured as a kernel built-in or a kernel loadable module.
    You can only make use of <constant>kgdbwait</constant> and early
    debugging if you build kgdboc into the kernel as a built-in.
+   <para>Optionally you can elect to activate kms (Kernel Mode
+   Setting) integration.  When you use kms with kgdboc and you have a
+   video driver that has atomic mode setting hooks, it is possible to
+   enter the debugger on the graphics console.  When the kernel
+   execution is resumed, the previous graphics mode will be restored.
+   This integration can serve as a useful tool to aid in diagnosing
+   crashes or doing analysis of memory with kdb while allowing the
+   full graphics console applications to run.
+   </para>
    </para>
    <sect2 id="kgdbocArgs">
    <title>kgdboc arguments</title>
-   <para>Usage: <constant>kgdboc=[kbd][[,]serial_device][,baud]</constant></para>
+   <para>Usage: <constant>kgdboc=[kms][[,]kbd][[,]serial_device][,baud]</constant></para>
+   <para>The order listed above must be observed if you use any of the
+   optional configurations together.
+   </para>
+   <para>Abbreviations:
+   <itemizedlist>
+   <listitem><para>kms = Kernel Mode Setting</para></listitem>
+   <listitem><para>kbd = Keyboard</para></listitem>
+   </itemizedlist>
+   </para>
+   <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and or a serial
+   device depending on if you are using kdb and or kgdb, in one of the
+   following scenarios.  The order listed above must be observed if
+   you use any of the optional configurations together.  Using kms +
+   only gdb is generally not a useful combination.</para>
    <sect3 id="kgdbocArgs1">
    <title>Using loadable module or built-in</title>
    <para>
@@ -212,7 +235,7 @@
    <listitem>
    <para>As a kernel loadable module:</para>
    <para>Use the command: <constant>modprobe kgdboc kgdboc=&lt;tty-device&gt;,[baud]</constant></para>
-   <para>Here are two examples of how you might formate the kgdboc
+   <para>Here are two examples of how you might format the kgdboc
    string. The first is for an x86 target using the first serial port.
    The second example is for the ARM Versatile AB using the second
    serial port.
@@ -240,6 +263,9 @@
    </sect3>
    <sect3 id="kgdbocArgs3">
    <title>More examples</title>
+   <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and or a serial
+   device depending on if you are using kdb and or kgdb, in one of the
+   following scenarios.</para>
    <para>You can configure kgdboc to use the keyboard, and or a serial device
    depending on if you are using kdb and or kgdb, in one of the
    following scenarios.
@@ -255,6 +281,12 @@
    <listitem><para>kdb with a keyboard</para>
    <para><constant>kgdboc=kbd</constant></para>
    </listitem>
+   <listitem><para>kdb with kernel mode setting</para>
+   <para><constant>kgdboc=kms,kbd</constant></para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem><para>kdb with kernel mode setting and kgdb over a serial port</para>
+   <para><constant>kgdboc=kms,kbd,ttyS0,115200</constant></para>
+   </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
    </para>
    </sect3>
@@ -637,6 +669,8 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
       <listitem><para>The logic to perform safe memory reads and writes to memory while using the debugger</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>A full implementation for software breakpoints unless overridden by the arch</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>The API to invoke either the kdb or kgdb frontend to the debug core.</para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>The structures and callback API for atomic kernel mode setting.</para>
+      <para>NOTE: kgdboc is where the kms callbacks are invoked.</para></listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
       </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -747,6 +781,8 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
   </sect1>
   <sect1 id="kgdbocDesign">
   <title>kgdboc internals</title>
+  <sect2>
+  <title>kgdboc and uarts</title>
   <para>
   The kgdboc driver is actually a very thin driver that relies on the
   underlying low level to the hardware driver having "polling hooks"
@@ -754,11 +790,8 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
   implementation of kgdboc it the serial_core was changed to expose a
   low level UART hook for doing polled mode reading and writing of a
   single character while in an atomic context.  When kgdb makes an I/O
-  request to the debugger, kgdboc invokes a call back in the serial
-  core which in turn uses the call back in the UART driver.  It is
-  certainly possible to extend kgdboc to work with non-UART based
-  consoles in the future.
-  </para>
+  request to the debugger, kgdboc invokes a callback in the serial
+  core which in turn uses the callback in the UART driver.</para>
   <para>
   When using kgdboc with a UART, the UART driver must implement two callbacks in the <constant>struct uart_ops</constant>. Example from drivers/8250.c:<programlisting>
 #ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
@@ -772,9 +805,68 @@ Task Addr       Pid   Parent [*] cpu State Thread     Command
   that they can be called from an atomic context and have to restore
   the state of the UART chip on return such that the system can return
   to normal when the debugger detaches.  You need to be very careful
-  with any kind of lock you consider, because failing here is most
+  with any kind of lock you consider, because failing here is most likely
   going to mean pressing the reset button.
   </para>
+  </sect2>
+  <sect2 id="kgdbocKbd">
+  <title>kgdboc and keyboards</title>
+  <para>The kgdboc driver contains logic to configure communications
+  with an attached keyboard.  The keyboard infrastructure is only
+  compiled into the kernel when CONFIG_KDB_KEYBOARD=y is set in the
+  kernel configuration.</para>
+  <para>The core polled keyboard driver driver for PS/2 type keyboards
+  is in drivers/char/kdb_keyboard.c.  This driver is hooked into the
+  debug core when kgdboc populates the callback in the array
+  called <constant>kdb_poll_funcs[]</constant>.  The
+  kdb_get_kbd_char() is the top-level function which polls hardware
+  for single character input.
+  </para>
+  </sect2>
+  <sect2 id="kgdbocKms">
+  <title>kgdboc and kms</title>
+  <para>The kgdboc driver contains logic to request the graphics
+  display to switch to a text context when you are using
+  "kgdboc=kms,kbd", provided that you have a video driver which has a
+  frame buffer console and atomic kernel mode setting support.</para>
+  <para>
+  Every time the kernel
+  debugger is entered it calls kgdboc_pre_exp_handler() which in turn
+  calls con_debug_enter() in the virtual console layer.  On resuming kernel
+  execution, the kernel debugger calls kgdboc_post_exp_handler() which
+  in turn calls con_debug_leave().</para>
+  <para>Any video driver that wants to be compatible with the kernel
+  debugger and the atomic kms callbacks must implement the
+  mode_set_base_atomic, fb_debug_enter and fb_debug_leave operations.
+  For the fb_debug_enter and fb_debug_leave the option exists to use
+  the generic drm fb helper functions or implement something custom for
+  the hardware.  The following example shows the initialization of the
+  .mode_set_base_atomic operation in
+  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:
+  <informalexample>
+  <programlisting>
+static const struct drm_crtc_helper_funcs intel_helper_funcs = {
+[...]
+        .mode_set_base_atomic = intel_pipe_set_base_atomic,
+[...]
+};
+  </programlisting>
+  </informalexample>
+  </para>
+  <para>Here is an example of how the i915 driver initializes the fb_debug_enter and fb_debug_leave functions to use the generic drm helpers in
+  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fb.c:
+  <informalexample>
+  <programlisting>
+static struct fb_ops intelfb_ops = {
+[...]
+       .fb_debug_enter = drm_fb_helper_debug_enter,
+       .fb_debug_leave = drm_fb_helper_debug_leave,
+[...]
+};
+  </programlisting>
+  </informalexample>
+  </para>
+  </sect2>
   </sect1>
   </chapter>
   <chapter id="credits">
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media-entities.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/media-entities.tmpl
index 5d4d40f429a5..6ae97157b1c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media-entities.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media-entities.tmpl
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@
 <!ENTITY sub-dev-teletext SYSTEM "v4l/dev-teletext.xml">
 <!ENTITY sub-driver SYSTEM "v4l/driver.xml">
 <!ENTITY sub-libv4l SYSTEM "v4l/libv4l.xml">
+<!ENTITY sub-lirc_device_interface SYSTEM "v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml">
 <!ENTITY sub-remote_controllers SYSTEM "v4l/remote_controllers.xml">
 <!ENTITY sub-fdl-appendix SYSTEM "v4l/fdl-appendix.xml">
 <!ENTITY sub-close SYSTEM "v4l/func-close.xml">
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/media.tmpl
index eea564bb12cb..f11048d4053f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media.tmpl
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 <title>LINUX MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE API</title>
 
 <copyright>
-	<year>2009</year>
+	<year>2009-2010</year>
 	<holder>LinuxTV Developers</holder>
 </copyright>
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled
 		in fact it covers several different video standards including
 		DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C and ATSC. The API is currently being updated
 		to documment support also for DVB-S2, ISDB-T and ISDB-S.</para>
-	<para>The third part covers other API's used by all media infrastructure devices</para>
+	<para>The third part covers Remote Controller API</para>
 	<para>For additional information and for the latest development code,
 		see: <ulink url="http://linuxtv.org">http://linuxtv.org</ulink>.</para>
 	<para>For discussing improvements, reporting troubles, sending new drivers, etc, please mail to: <ulink url="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media">Linux Media Mailing List (LMML).</ulink>.</para>
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled
 </author>
 </authorgroup>
 <copyright>
-	<year>2009</year>
+	<year>2009-2010</year>
 	<holder>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</holder>
 </copyright>
 
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled
 </revhistory>
 </partinfo>
 
-<title>Other API's used by media infrastructure drivers</title>
+<title>Remote Controller API</title>
 <chapter id="remote_controllers">
 &sub-remote_controllers;
 </chapter>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl
index d87f4569e768..324b53494f08 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
         </para>
         <para>
           For documentation see
-          <ulink url='http://www.torque.net/sg/sdebug26.html'>http://www.torque.net/sg/sdebug26.html</ulink>
+          <ulink url='http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdebug26.html'>http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdebug26.html</ulink>
         </para>
 <!-- !Edrivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c -->
       </sect2>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl b/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl
index 254c1d5d2e50..85b25275196f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
 <param name="callout.graphics">0</param>
 <!-- <param name="paper.type">A4</param> -->
 <param name="generate.section.toc.level">2</param>
+<param name="use.id.as.filename">1</param>
 </stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml
index b42b935913cd..54447f0d0784 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml
@@ -1091,8 +1091,9 @@ signed 64-bit integer. Output devices should not send a buffer out
 until the time in the timestamp field has arrived. I would like to
 follow SGI's lead, and adopt a multimedia timestamping system like
 their UST (Unadjusted System Time). See
-http://reality.sgi.com/cpirazzi_engr/lg/time/intro.html. [This link is
-no longer valid.] UST uses timestamps that are 64-bit signed integers
+http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://reality.sgi.com
+/cpirazzi_engr/lg/time/intro.html. 
+UST uses timestamps that are 64-bit signed integers
 (not struct timeval's) and given in nanosecond units. The UST clock
 starts at zero when the system is booted and runs continuously and
 uniformly. It takes a little over 292 years for UST to overflow. There
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/fdl-appendix.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/fdl-appendix.xml
index b6ce50dbe492..ae22394ba997 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/fdl-appendix.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/fdl-appendix.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
      The GNU Free Documentation License 1.1 in DocBook
      Markup by Eric Baudais <baudais@okstate.edu>
      Maintained by the GNOME Documentation Project
-     http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp
+     http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject
      Version: 1.0.1
      Last Modified: Nov 16, 2000
 -->
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0413234023d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
+<section id="lirc_dev">
+<title>LIRC Device Interface</title>
+
+
+<section id="lirc_dev_intro">
+<title>Introduction</title>
+
+<para>The LIRC device interface is a bi-directional interface for
+transporting raw IR data between userspace and kernelspace. Fundamentally,
+it is just a chardev (/dev/lircX, for X = 0, 1, 2, ...), with a number
+of standard struct file_operations defined on it. With respect to
+transporting raw IR data to and fro, the essential fops are read, write
+and ioctl.</para>
+
+<para>Example dmesg output upon a driver registering w/LIRC:</para>
+  <blockquote>
+    <para>$ dmesg |grep lirc_dev</para>
+    <para>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 248</para>
+    <para>rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0</para>
+  </blockquote>
+
+<para>What you should see for a chardev:</para>
+  <blockquote>
+    <para>$ ls -l /dev/lirc*</para>
+    <para>crw-rw---- 1 root root 248, 0 Jul  2 22:20 /dev/lirc0</para>
+  </blockquote>
+</section>
+
+<section id="lirc_read">
+<title>LIRC read fop</title>
+
+<para>The lircd userspace daemon reads raw IR data from the LIRC chardev. The
+exact format of the data depends on what modes a driver supports, and what
+mode has been selected. lircd obtains supported modes and sets the active mode
+via the ioctl interface, detailed at <xref linkend="lirc_ioctl"/>. The generally
+preferred mode is LIRC_MODE_MODE2, in which packets containing an int value
+describing an IR signal are read from the chardev.</para>
+
+<para>See also <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html">http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html</ulink> for more info.</para>
+</section>
+
+<section id="lirc_write">
+<title>LIRC write fop</title>
+
+<para>The data written to the chardev is a pulse/space sequence of integer
+values. Pulses and spaces are only marked implicitly by their position. The
+data must start and end with a pulse, therefore, the data must always include
+an unevent number of samples. The write function must block until the data has
+been transmitted by the hardware.</para>
+</section>
+
+<section id="lirc_ioctl">
+<title>LIRC ioctl fop</title>
+
+<para>The LIRC device's ioctl definition is bound by the ioctl function
+definition of struct file_operations, leaving us with an unsigned int
+for the ioctl command and an unsigned long for the arg. For the purposes
+of ioctl portability across 32-bit and 64-bit, these values are capped
+to their 32-bit sizes.</para>
+
+<para>The following ioctls can be used to change specific hardware settings.
+In general each driver should have a default set of settings. The driver
+implementation is expected to re-apply the default settings when the device
+is closed by user-space, so that every application opening the device can rely
+on working with the default settings initially.</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_FEATURES</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Obviously, get the underlying hardware device's features. If a driver
+      does not announce support of certain features, calling of the corresponding
+      ioctls is undefined.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_SEND_MODE</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Get supported transmit mode. Only LIRC_MODE_PULSE is supported by lircd.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_REC_MODE</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Get supported receive modes. Only LIRC_MODE_MODE2 and LIRC_MODE_LIRCCODE
+      are supported by lircd.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_SEND_CARRIER</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Get carrier frequency (in Hz) currently used for transmit.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_REC_CARRIER</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Get carrier frequency (in Hz) currently used for IR reception.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_{G,S}ET_{SEND,REC}_DUTY_CYCLE</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Get/set the duty cycle (from 0 to 100) of the carrier signal. Currently,
+      no special meaning is defined for 0 or 100, but this could be used to switch
+      off carrier generation in the future, so these values should be reserved.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_REC_RESOLUTION</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Some receiver have maximum resolution which is defined by internal
+      sample rate or data format limitations. E.g. it's common that signals can
+      only be reported in 50 microsecond steps. This integer value is used by
+      lircd to automatically adjust the aeps tolerance value in the lircd
+      config file.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_M{IN,AX}_TIMEOUT</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Some devices have internal timers that can be used to detect when
+      there's no IR activity for a long time. This can help lircd in detecting
+      that a IR signal is finished and can speed up the decoding process.
+      Returns an integer value with the minimum/maximum timeout that can be
+      set. Some devices have a fixed timeout, in that case both ioctls will
+      return the same value even though the timeout cannot be changed.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_M{IN,AX}_FILTER_{PULSE,SPACE}</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Some devices are able to filter out spikes in the incoming signal
+      using given filter rules. These ioctls return the hardware capabilities
+      that describe the bounds of the possible filters. Filter settings depend
+      on the IR protocols that are expected. lircd derives the settings from
+      all protocols definitions found in its config file.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_GET_LENGTH</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Retrieves the code length in bits (only for LIRC_MODE_LIRCCODE).
+      Reads on the device must be done in blocks matching the bit count.
+      The bit could should be rounded up so that it matches full bytes.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_{SEND,REC}_MODE</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Set send/receive mode. Largely obsolete for send, as only
+      LIRC_MODE_PULSE is supported.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_{SEND,REC}_CARRIER</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Set send/receive carrier (in Hz).</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_TRANSMITTER_MASK</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>This enables the given set of transmitters. The first transmitter
+      is encoded by the least significant bit, etc. When an invalid bit mask
+      is given, i.e. a bit is set, even though the device does not have so many
+      transitters, then this ioctl returns the number of available transitters
+      and does nothing otherwise.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Sets the integer value for IR inactivity timeout (cf.
+      LIRC_GET_MIN_TIMEOUT and LIRC_GET_MAX_TIMEOUT). A value of 0 (if
+      supported by the hardware) disables all hardware timeouts and data should
+      be reported as soon as possible. If the exact value cannot be set, then
+      the next possible value _greater_ than the given value should be set.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT_REPORTS</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Enable (1) or disable (0) timeout reports in LIRC_MODE_MODE2. By
+      default, timeout reports should be turned off.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_REC_FILTER_{,PULSE,SPACE}</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Pulses/spaces shorter than this are filtered out by hardware. If
+      filters cannot be set independently for pulse/space, the corresponding
+      ioctls must return an error and LIRC_SET_REC_FILTER shall be used instead.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_MEASURE_CARRIER_MODE</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Enable (1)/disable (0) measure mode. If enabled, from the next key
+      press on, the driver will send LIRC_MODE2_FREQUENCY packets. By default
+      this should be turned off.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SET_REC_{DUTY_CYCLE,CARRIER}_RANGE</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>To set a range use LIRC_SET_REC_DUTY_CYCLE_RANGE/LIRC_SET_REC_CARRIER_RANGE
+      with the lower bound first and later LIRC_SET_REC_DUTY_CYCLE/LIRC_SET_REC_CARRIER
+      with the upper bound.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_NOTIFY_DECODE</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>This ioctl is called by lircd whenever a successful decoding of an
+      incoming IR signal could be done. This can be used by supporting hardware
+      to give visual feedback to the user e.g. by flashing a LED.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term>LIRC_SETUP_{START,END}</term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Setting of several driver parameters can be optimized by encapsulating
+      the according ioctl calls with LIRC_SETUP_START/LIRC_SETUP_END. When a
+      driver receives a LIRC_SETUP_START ioctl it can choose to not commit
+      further setting changes to the hardware until a LIRC_SETUP_END is received.
+      But this is open to the driver implementation and every driver must also
+      handle parameter changes which are not encapsulated by LIRC_SETUP_START
+      and LIRC_SETUP_END. Drivers can also choose to ignore these ioctls.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+
+</section>
+</section>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/remote_controllers.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/remote_controllers.xml
index 73f5eab091f4..3c3b667b28e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/remote_controllers.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/remote_controllers.xml
@@ -173,3 +173,5 @@ keymapping.</para>
 <para>This program demonstrates how to replace the keymap tables.</para>
 &sub-keytable-c;
 </section>
+
+&sub-lirc_device_interface;