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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-08 11:40:06 -0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-08 11:59:40 -0300 |
commit | 60c2820d0f6d3497975b6488e2599f8f611d8b95 (patch) | |
tree | b3b03707c6438ea9b99cc57e847ebf517f968ab1 /Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/net.rst | |
parent | a97369b5e21ea9b8b5fef7c0f4f48bbe60c07ca3 (diff) |
doc_rst: rename the media Sphinx suff to Documentation/media
The name of the subsystem is "media", and not "linux_tv". Also,
as we plan to add other stuff there in the future, let's
rename also the media uAPI book to media_uapi, to make it
clearer.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/net.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/net.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..eca42dd53261 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/net.rst @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*- + +.. _net: + +############### +DVB Network API +############### +The DVB net device controls the mapping of data packages that are part +of a transport stream to be mapped into a virtual network interface, +visible through the standard Linux network protocol stack. + +Currently, two encapsulations are supported: + +- `Multi Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Encapsulation>`__ + +- `Ultra Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_Lightweight_Encapsulation>`__ + +In order to create the Linux virtual network interfaces, an application +needs to tell to the Kernel what are the PIDs and the encapsulation +types that are present on the transport stream. This is done through +``/dev/dvb/adapter?/net?`` device node. The data will be available via +virtual ``dvb?_?`` network interfaces, and will be controlled/routed via +the standard ip tools (like ip, route, netstat, ifconfig, etc). + +Data types and and ioctl definitions are defined via ``linux/dvb/net.h`` +header. + + +.. _net_fcalls: + +###################### +DVB net Function Calls +###################### + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + net-add-if + net-remove-if + net-get-if |