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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-16 13:31:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-22 07:47:53 +0200 |
| commit | d9d43617bb1324b82db6169660e44f53348c7181 (patch) | |
| tree | f9c5d71e8df7d56102018d8f318b21f93b3dd0db /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | media: admin-guide: update em28xx cardlist (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst | 27 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst index 6e5e6bdb6d4b..f79d4f1e05ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/index.rst @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Video4Linux (V4L) driver-specific documentation :maxdepth: 5 :numbered: + intro + cardlist v4l-with-ir diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fec8122f2412 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/intro.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============ +Introduction +============ + +The media subsystem consists on Linux support for several different types +of devices: + +- Audio and video grabbers; +- PC and Laptop Cameras; +- Complex cameras found on Embedded hardware; +- Analog and digital TV; +- HDMI Customer Electronics Control (CEC); +- Multi-touch input devices; +- Remote Controllers; +- Media encoders and decoders. + +Due to the diversity of devices, the subsystem provides several different +APIs: + +- Remote Controller API; +- HDMI CEC API; +- Video4Linux API; +- Media controller API; +- Video4Linux Request API (experimental); +- Digital TV API (also known as DVB API). |