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+Digital TV Demux kABI
+---------------------
+
+Digital TV Demux
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Kernel Digital TV Demux kABI defines a driver-internal interface for
+registering low-level, hardware specific driver to a hardware independent
+demux layer. It is only of interest for Digital TV device driver writers.
+The header file for this kABI is named demux.h and located in
+drivers/media/dvb-core.
+
+The demux kABI should be implemented for each demux in the system. It is
+used to select the TS source of a demux and to manage the demux resources.
+When the demux client allocates a resource via the demux kABI, it receives
+a pointer to the kABI of that resource.
+
+Each demux receives its TS input from a DVB front-end or from memory, as
+set via this demux kABI. In a system with more than one front-end, the kABI
+can be used to select one of the DVB front-ends as a TS source for a demux,
+unless this is fixed in the HW platform.
+
+The demux kABI only controls front-ends regarding to their connections with
+demuxes; the kABI used to set the other front-end parameters, such as
+tuning, are devined via the Digital TV Frontend kABI.
+
+The functions that implement the abstract interface demux should be defined
+static or module private and registered to the Demux core for external
+access. It is not necessary to implement every function in the struct
+&dmx_demux. For example, a demux interface might support Section filtering,
+but not PES filtering. The kABI client is expected to check the value of any
+function pointer before calling the function: the value of ``NULL`` means
+that the function is not available.
+
+Whenever the functions of the demux API modify shared data, the
+possibilities of lost update and race condition problems should be
+addressed, e.g. by protecting parts of code with mutexes.
+
+Note that functions called from a bottom half context must not sleep.
+Even a simple memory allocation without using ``GFP_ATOMIC`` can result in a
+kernel thread being put to sleep if swapping is needed. For example, the
+Linux Kernel calls the functions of a network device interface from a
+bottom half context. Thus, if a demux kABI function is called from network
+device code, the function must not sleep.
+
+
+
+Demux Callback API
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This kernel-space API comprises the callback functions that deliver filtered
+data to the demux client. Unlike the other DVB kABIs, these functions are
+provided by the client and called from the demux code.
+
+The function pointers of this abstract interface are not packed into a
+structure as in the other demux APIs, because the callback functions are
+registered and used independent of each other. As an example, it is possible
+for the API client to provide several callback functions for receiving TS
+packets and no callbacks for PES packets or sections.
+
+The functions that implement the callback API need not be re-entrant: when
+a demux driver calls one of these functions, the driver is not allowed to
+call the function again before the original call returns. If a callback is
+triggered by a hardware interrupt, it is recommended to use the Linux
+bottom half mechanism or start a tasklet instead of making the callback
+function call directly from a hardware interrupt.
+
+This mechanism is implemented by :c:func:`dmx_ts_cb()` and :c:func:`dmx_section_cb()`
+callbacks.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h