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[media] DocBook: update descriptions for the media controller entities
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Fri, 8 May 2015 01:12:40 +0000 (22:12 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:18:52 +0000 (12:18 -0200)
Cleanup the media controller entities description:
- remove MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE and MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV entity
  types, as they don't mean anything;
- add MEDIA_ENT_T_UNKNOWN with a proper description;
- remove ALSA and FB entity types. Those should not be used, as
  the types are deprecated. We'll soon be adidng ALSA, but with
  a different entity namespace;
- improve the description of some entities.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml

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         <colspec colname="c2"/>
        <tbody valign="top">
          <row>
-           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE</constant></entry>
-           <entry>Unknown device node</entry>
+           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_UNKNOWN</constant> and <constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_UNKNOWN</constant></entry>
+           <entry>Unknown entity. That generally indicates that
+           a driver didn't initialize properly the entity, with is a Kernel bug</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_VIDEO</constant></entry>
-           <entry>V4L video, radio or vbi device node</entry>
+           <entry>V4L video streaming input or output entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
-           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE_FB</constant></entry>
-           <entry>Frame buffer device node</entry>
+           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_VBI</constant></entry>
+           <entry>V4L VBI streaming input or output entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
-           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DEVNODE_ALSA</constant></entry>
-           <entry>ALSA card</entry>
+           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SWRADIO</constant></entry>
+           <entry>V4L Software Digital Radio (SDR) streaming input or output entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMOD</constant></entry>
-           <entry>DVB frontend devnode</entry>
+           <entry>DVB demodulator entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMUX</constant></entry>
-           <entry>DVB demux devnode</entry>
+           <entry>DVB demux entity. Can be implemented in hardware or in Kernelspace</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_TSOUT</constant></entry>
-           <entry>DVB DVR devnode</entry>
+           <entry>DVB Transport Stream output entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_CA</constant></entry>
-           <entry>DVB CAM devnode</entry>
+           <entry>DVB Conditional Access module (CAM) entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_DVB_DEMOD_NET_DECAP</constant></entry>
-           <entry>DVB network devnode</entry>
-         </row>
-         <row>
-           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV</constant></entry>
-           <entry>Unknown V4L sub-device</entry>
+           <entry>DVB network ULE/MLE de-encapsulation entity. Can be implemented in hardware or in Kernelspace</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_SENSOR</constant></entry>
-           <entry>Video sensor</entry>
+           <entry>Camera image sensor entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_FLASH</constant></entry>
-           <entry>Flash controller</entry>
+           <entry>Flash controller entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_LENS</constant></entry>
-           <entry>Lens controller</entry>
+           <entry>Lens controller entity</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_DECODER</constant></entry>
-           <entry>Video decoder, the basic function of the video decoder is to
-           accept analogue video from a wide variety of sources such as
+           <entry>Analog video decoder, the basic function of the video decoder
+           is to accept analogue video from a wide variety of sources such as
            broadcast, DVD players, cameras and video cassette recorders, in
-           either NTSC, PAL or HD format and still occasionally SECAM, separate
-           it into its component parts, luminance and chrominance, and output
-           it in some digital video standard, with appropriate embedded timing
+           either NTSC, PAL, SECAM or HD format, separating the stream
+           into its component parts, luminance and chrominance, and output
+           it in some digital video standard, with appropriate timing
            signals.</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_TUNER</constant></entry>
-           <entry>TV and/or radio tuner</entry>
+           <entry>Digital TV, analog TV, radio and/or software radio tuner</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
       </tgroup>