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media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
.. include:: <isonum.txt>
media: admin-guide: reorganize the guide Separate the generic documentation from the driver-specific parts, and use a better title for the documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-18 17:59:24 +08:00
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Media subsystem admin and user guide
====================================
media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
media: docs: add cros-references to the other media guides In order to make easier for people to navigate between the three media guides, add cross-references between them Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-31 20:44:56 +08:00
This section contains usage information about media subsystem and
its supported drivers.
media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
media: docs: add cros-references to the other media guides In order to make easier for people to navigate between the three media guides, add cross-references between them Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-31 20:44:56 +08:00
Please see:
media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
media: docs: add cros-references to the other media guides In order to make easier for people to navigate between the three media guides, add cross-references between them Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-31 20:44:56 +08:00
- :doc:`/userspace-api/media/index`
for the userspace APIs used on media devices.
- :doc:`/driver-api/media/index`
for driver development information and Kernel APIs used by
media devices;
media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
media: admin-guide: reorganize the guide Separate the generic documentation from the driver-specific parts, and use a better title for the documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-18 17:59:24 +08:00
The media subsystem
===================
media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
.. only:: html
.. class:: toc-title
Table of Contents
.. toctree::
media: admin-guide: split driver-specific indexes to new files In order to better organize the main admin-guide index, place the driver-specific indexes on separate files. This ensures a more consistent numbering at the main index. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-18 18:07:11 +08:00
:maxdepth: 2
media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
:numbered:
media: admin-guide: Add an introduction chapter The media's admin guide is currently just a group of not-connected docs. Add an introduction chapter for it to start making sense to a random reader. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-16 19:31:40 +08:00
intro
media: admin-guide: add a generic building guide Several of the existing documents under the media admin-guide contain build procedures. Add an specific chapter describing it. This document was partially inspired on the modifications I made to the bttv.rst file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-16 19:31:50 +08:00
building
media: admin-guide: Add an introduction chapter The media's admin guide is currently just a group of not-connected docs. Add an introduction chapter for it to start making sense to a random reader. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-16 19:31:40 +08:00
media: admin-guide: reorganize the guide Separate the generic documentation from the driver-specific parts, and use a better title for the documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-18 17:59:24 +08:00
remote-controller
dvb
media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guide Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-04 20:08:03 +08:00
cardlist
media: admin-guide: split driver-specific indexes to new files In order to better organize the main admin-guide index, place the driver-specific indexes on separate files. This ensures a more consistent numbering at the main index. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-18 18:07:11 +08:00
v4l-drivers
dvb-drivers
cec-drivers
media: docs: move copyrights to the end and update them The copyright info is not the most valuable information there. Move them to the end. While here, change the copyright to cover up to this year (2020). Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-03-31 20:34:29 +08:00
**Copyright** |copy| 1999-2020 : LinuxTV Developers
::
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.
For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of Linux.
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