[linux-dvb] Re: Updated Linux DVB API documentation available

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Alessandro De Donno wrote:
> Il giorno Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:29:37 +0100, in uno stato di totale
> incoscienza,
> Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de> casualmente disse:
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've spend some hours on updating the DVB API documentation.
> > It's still not complete, but currently I don't have time to
> > do more work on it.
>
> Thanks Johannes!
> There are only some rows ending over the right border (in the PDF
> document).
>
> Two questions.
> 1)
> The DVB API version in the DVB CVS branch is 3. That's OK. Henning
> Holtschneider saves a daily copy to his site (dvb-newstruct), but the
> version in thi case is 2: why? Doesn't he save a copy directly from DVB
> CVS?
The NEWSTRUCT branch waws used for development about a year ago, right 
now it's dead, after the merge development is going on in the main trunk 
again.


> 2)
> There are currently 5 versions of the drivers. Is this correct?
> a) the old drivers (before october 2002). Still mantained for debugging?
> Is these the "dvb-yyyymmdd" in Henning site?
these might be necessairy for some software using the old API. I 
recommend everybody to port the user space software to the current API.

> b) Metzler's drivers (after the "ramification")
> c) HEAD branch (ex NEWSTRUCT, i.e. the DVB module in CVS)
That's the main tree we want to (pre)release next days.


> d) dvb-kernel drivers (dvb-kernel module in CVS)
This is the driver tree for 2.5 kernels and the current 'developer 
source tree' - main development goes here and this driver might be 
unstable from time to time.


> e) dvb-newstruct-yyyymmdd in Henning site (???, API version 2, why?)
these are deprecated.


> Well, I'm trying to find the time to write a good documentation,
> from DVB in general (written for my thesis, I only must
> translate it in (an acceptable) English, to DVB for Linux with drivers,
> API, softwares, links, etc. etc.
(then google and altavista are your friends;)

Holger



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