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| author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2010-08-06 12:52:43 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-10-21 01:05:48 -0200 |
| commit | f44026dbe42d38f2e2dfdc7bf35cafc7e44794d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f0416d2ba548cb045fcd2b7e84aa95510253cba /Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml | |
| parent | 226c0eeaea6732c686a5f4e06f25e5850cd5dd61 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f44026dbe42d38f2e2dfdc7bf35cafc7e44794d7.tar.bz2 | |
V4L/DVB: Documentation: update now that the vtx/videotext API has been removed
Remove all references to /dev/vtx in the documentation, except for
some historical comments in dev-teletext.xml.
Documentation/devices.txt is not updated, this will go through Alan Cox
who maintains this file.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml index 54447f0d0784..c9ce61d981f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/compat.xml @@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ API.</para> <title>Opening and Closing Devices</title> <para>For compatibility reasons the character device file names -recommended for V4L2 video capture, overlay, radio, teletext and raw +recommended for V4L2 video capture, overlay, radio and raw vbi capture devices did not change from those used by V4L. They are listed in <xref linkend="devices" /> and below in <xref linkend="v4l-dev" />.</para> + <para>The teletext devices (minor range 192-223) have been removed in +V4L2 and no longer exist. There is no hardware available anymore for handling +pure teletext. Instead raw or sliced VBI is used.</para> + <para>The V4L <filename>videodev</filename> module automatically assigns minor numbers to drivers in load order, depending on the registered device type. We recommend that V4L2 drivers by default @@ -66,13 +70,6 @@ not compatible with V4L or V4L2.</para> </footnote>, <entry>64-127</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>Teletext decoder</entry> - <entry><para><filename>/dev/vtx</filename>, -<filename>/dev/vtx0</filename> to -<filename>/dev/vtx31</filename></para></entry> - <entry>192-223</entry> - </row> - <row> <entry>Raw VBI capture</entry> <entry><para><filename>/dev/vbi</filename>, <filename>/dev/vbi0</filename> to @@ -2345,6 +2342,17 @@ more information.</para> </listitem> </orderedlist> </section> + <section> + <title>V4L2 in Linux 2.6.37</title> + <orderedlist> + <listitem> + <para>Remove the vtx (videotext/teletext) API. This API was no longer +used and no hardware exists to verify the API. Nor were any userspace applications found +that used it. It was originally scheduled for removal in 2.6.35. + </para> + </listitem> + </orderedlist> + </section> <section id="other"> <title>Relation of V4L2 to other Linux multimedia APIs</title> |