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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 12:18:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 12:18:16 -0700
commitd1b5726358ccebcf614fc9f97cdf3354178dcb80 (patch)
treed7bbd8e24bd312d9c2c18fc18f12f6a8ce9b084f /Documentation/DocBook
parentc472273f863c80b87e53356256c5466df24328f0 (diff)
parent656e6c0050fd63ce42c55a6cb454a9b4b2f9ccf7 (diff)
Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctl Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensions Remove videobook.tmpl doc: Test-by? Add the development process document Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt: Fix section numbers
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl1654
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 1655 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 1615350b7b53..fabc06466b93 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
# To add a new book the only step required is to add the book to the
# list of DOCBOOKS.
-DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \
+DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml \
kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \
procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml networking.xml \
kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml kgdb.xml \
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bc25949b668..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1654 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
-
-<book id="V4LGuide">
- <bookinfo>
- <title>Video4Linux Programming</title>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <firstname>Alan</firstname>
- <surname>Cox</surname>
- <affiliation>
- <address>
- <email>alan@redhat.com</email>
- </address>
- </affiliation>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
-
- <copyright>
- <year>2000</year>
- <holder>Alan Cox</holder>
- </copyright>
-
- <legalnotice>
- <para>
- This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
- it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
- License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
- version.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
- useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
- warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- See the GNU General Public License for more details.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
- License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
- Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- MA 02111-1307 USA
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For more details see the file COPYING in the source
- distribution of Linux.
- </para>
- </legalnotice>
- </bookinfo>
-
-<toc></toc>
-
- <chapter id="intro">
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <para>
- Parts of this document first appeared in Linux Magazine under a
- ninety day exclusivity.
- </para>
- <para>
- Video4Linux is intended to provide a common programming interface
- for the many TV and capture cards now on the market, as well as
- parallel port and USB video cameras. Radio, teletext decoders and
- vertical blanking data interfaces are also provided.
- </para>
- </chapter>
- <chapter id="radio">
- <title>Radio Devices</title>
- <para>
- There are a wide variety of radio interfaces available for PC's, and these
- are generally very simple to program. The biggest problem with supporting
- such devices is normally extracting documentation from the vendor.
- </para>
- <para>
- The radio interface supports a simple set of control ioctls standardised
- across all radio and tv interfaces. It does not support read or write, which
- are used for video streams. The reason radio cards do not allow you to read
- the audio stream into an application is that without exception they provide
- a connection on to a soundcard. Soundcards can be used to read the radio
- data just fine.
- </para>
- <sect1 id="registerradio">
- <title>Registering Radio Devices</title>
- <para>
- The Video4linux core provides an interface for registering devices. The
- first step in writing our radio card driver is to register it.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
-static struct video_device my_radio
-{
- "My radio",
- VID_TYPE_TUNER,
- radio_open.
- radio_close,
- NULL, /* no read */
- NULL, /* no write */
- NULL, /* no poll */
- radio_ioctl,
- NULL, /* no special init function */
- NULL /* no private data */
-};
-
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- This declares our video4linux device driver interface. The VID_TYPE_ value
- defines what kind of an interface we are, and defines basic capabilities.
- </para>
- <para>
- The only defined value relevant for a radio card is VID_TYPE_TUNER which
- indicates that the device can be tuned. Clearly our radio is going to have some
- way to change channel so it is tuneable.
- </para>
- <para>
- We declare an open and close routine, but we do not need read or write,
- which are used to read and write video data to or from the card itself. As
- we have no read or write there is no poll function.
- </para>
- <para>
- The private initialise function is run when the device is registered. In
- this driver we've already done all the work needed. The final pointer is a
- private data pointer that can be used by the device driver to attach and
- retrieve private data structures. We set this field "priv" to NULL for
- the moment.
- </para>
- <para>
- Having the structure defined is all very well but we now need to register it
- with the kernel.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
-static int io = 0x320;
-
-int __init myradio_init(struct video_init *v)
-{
- if(!request_region(io, MY_IO_SIZE, "myradio"))
- {
- printk(KERN_ERR
- "myradio: port 0x%03X is in use.\n", io);
- return -EBUSY;
- }
-
- if(video_device_register(&amp;my_radio, VFL_TYPE_RADIO)==-1) {
- release_region(io, MY_IO_SIZE);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
- return 0;
-}
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- The first stage of the initialisation, as is normally the case, is to check
- that the I/O space we are about to fiddle with doesn't belong to some other
- driver. If it is we leave well alone. If the user gives the address of the
- wrong device then we will spot this. These policies will generally avoid
- crashing the machine.
- </para>
- <para>
- Now we ask the Video4Linux layer to register the device for us. We hand it
- our carefully designed video_device structure and also tell it which group
- of devices we want it registered with. In this case VFL_TYPE_RADIO.
- </para>
- <para>
- The types available are
- </para>
- <table frame="all" id="Device_Types"><title>Device Types</title>
- <tgroup cols="3" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>VFL_TYPE_RADIO</entry><entry>/dev/radio{n}</entry><entry>
-
- Radio devices are assigned in this block. As with all of these
- selections the actual number assignment is done by the video layer
- accordijng to what is free.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VFL_TYPE_GRABBER</entry><entry>/dev/video{n}</entry><entry>
- Video capture devices and also -- counter-intuitively for the name --
- hardware video playback devices such as MPEG2 cards.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VFL_TYPE_VBI</entry><entry>/dev/vbi{n}</entry><entry>
- The VBI devices capture the hidden lines on a television picture
- that carry further information like closed caption data, teletext
- (primarily in Europe) and now Intercast and the ATVEC internet
- television encodings.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VFL_TYPE_VTX</entry><entry>/dev/vtx[n}</entry><entry>
- VTX is 'Videotext' also known as 'Teletext'. This is a system for
- sending numbered, 40x25, mostly textual page images over the hidden
- lines. Unlike the /dev/vbi interfaces, this is for 'smart' decoder
- chips. (The use of the word smart here has to be taken in context,
- the smartest teletext chips are fairly dumb pieces of technology).
- </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- <para>
- We are most definitely a radio.
- </para>
- <para>
- Finally we allocate our I/O space so that nobody treads on us and return 0
- to signify general happiness with the state of the universe.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="openradio">
- <title>Opening And Closing The Radio</title>
-
- <para>
- The functions we declared in our video_device are mostly very simple.
- Firstly we can drop in what is basically standard code for open and close.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
-static int users = 0;
-
-static int radio_open(struct video_device *dev, int flags)
-{
- if(users)
- return -EBUSY;
- users++;
- return 0;
-}
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- At open time we need to do nothing but check if someone else is also using
- the radio card. If nobody is using it we make a note that we are using it,
- then we ensure that nobody unloads our driver on us.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
-static int radio_close(struct video_device *dev)
-{
- users--;
-}
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- At close time we simply need to reduce the user count and allow the module
- to become unloadable.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you are sharp you will have noticed neither the open nor the close
- routines attempt to reset or change the radio settings. This is intentional.
- It allows an application to set up the radio and exit. It avoids a user
- having to leave an application running all the time just to listen to the
- radio.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="ioctlradio">
- <title>The Ioctl Interface</title>
- <para>
- This leaves the ioctl routine, without which the driver will not be
- terribly useful to anyone.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
-static int radio_ioctl(struct video_device *dev, unsigned int cmd, void *arg)
-{
- switch(cmd)
- {
- case VIDIOCGCAP:
- {
- struct video_capability v;
- v.type = VID_TYPE_TUNER;
- v.channels = 1;
- v.audios = 1;
- v.maxwidth = 0;
- v.minwidth = 0;
- v.maxheight = 0;
- v.minheight = 0;
- strcpy(v.name, "My Radio");
- if(copy_to_user(arg, &amp;v, sizeof(v)))
- return -EFAULT;
- return 0;
- }
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- VIDIOCGCAP is the first ioctl all video4linux devices must support. It
- allows the applications to find out what sort of a card they have found and
- to figure out what they want to do about it. The fields in the structure are
- </para>
- <table frame="all" id="video_capability_fields"><title>struct video_capability fields</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>name</entry><entry>The device text name. This is intended for the user.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>channels</entry><entry>The number of different channels you can tune on
- this card. It could even by zero for a card that has
- no tuning capability. For our simple FM radio it is 1.
- An AM/FM radio would report 2.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>audios</entry><entry>The number of audio inputs on this device. For our
- radio there is only one audio input.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>minwidth,minheight</entry><entry>The smallest size the card is capable of capturing
- images in. We set these to zero. Radios do not
- capture pictures</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>maxwidth,maxheight</entry><entry>The largest image size the card is capable of
- capturing. For our radio we report 0.
- </entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>type</entry><entry>This reports the capabilities of the device, and
- matches the field we filled in in the struct
- video_device when registering.</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- <para>
- Having filled in the fields, we use copy_to_user to copy the structure into
- the users buffer. If the copy fails we return an EFAULT to the application
- so that it knows it tried to feed us garbage.
- </para>
- <para>
- The next pair of ioctl operations select which tuner is to be used and let
- the application find the tuner properties. We have only a single FM band
- tuner in our example device.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
- case VIDIOCGTUNER:
- {
- struct video_tuner v;
- if(copy_from_user(&amp;v, arg, sizeof(v))!=0)
- return -EFAULT;
- if(v.tuner)
- return -EINVAL;
- v.rangelow=(87*16000);
- v.rangehigh=(108*16000);
- v.flags = VIDEO_TUNER_LOW;
- v.mode = VIDEO_MODE_AUTO;
- v.signal = 0xFFFF;
- strcpy(v.name, "FM");
- if(copy_to_user(&amp;v, arg, sizeof(v))!=0)
- return -EFAULT;
- return 0;
- }
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- The VIDIOCGTUNER ioctl allows applications to query a tuner. The application
- sets the tuner field to the tuner number it wishes to query. The query does
- not change the tuner that is being used, it merely enquires about the tuner
- in question.
- </para>
- <para>
- We have exactly one tuner so after copying the user buffer to our temporary
- structure we complain if they asked for a tuner other than tuner 0.
- </para>
- <para>
- The video_tuner structure has the following fields
- </para>
- <table frame="all" id="video_tuner_fields"><title>struct video_tuner fields</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>int tuner</entry><entry>The number of the tuner in question</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>char name[32]</entry><entry>A text description of this tuner. "FM" will do fine.
- This is intended for the application.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>u32 flags</entry>
- <entry>Tuner capability flags</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>u16 mode</entry><entry>The current reception mode</entry>
-
- </row><row>
- <entry>u16 signal</entry><entry>The signal strength scaled between 0 and 65535. If
- a device cannot tell the signal strength it should
- report 65535. Many simple cards contain only a
- signal/no signal bit. Such cards will report either
- 0 or 65535.</entry>
-
- </row><row>
- <entry>u32 rangelow, rangehigh</entry><entry>
- The range of frequencies supported by the radio
- or TV. It is scaled according to the VIDEO_TUNER_LOW
- flag.</entry>
-
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
-
- <table frame="all" id="video_tuner_flags"><title>struct video_tuner flags</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>VIDEO_TUNER_PAL</entry><entry>A PAL TV tuner</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_TUNER_NTSC</entry><entry>An NTSC (US) TV tuner</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_TUNER_SECAM</entry><entry>A SECAM (French) TV tuner</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_TUNER_LOW</entry><entry>
- The tuner frequency is scaled in 1/16th of a KHz
- steps. If not it is in 1/16th of a MHz steps
- </entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_TUNER_NORM</entry><entry>The tuner can set its format</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_TUNER_STEREO_ON</entry><entry>The tuner is currently receiving a stereo signal</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
-
- <table frame="all" id="video_tuner_modes"><title>struct video_tuner modes</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>VIDEO_MODE_PAL</entry><entry>PAL Format</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_MODE_NTSC</entry><entry>NTSC Format (USA)</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_MODE_SECAM</entry><entry>French Format</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_MODE_AUTO</entry><entry>A device that does not need to do
- TV format switching</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- <para>
- The settings for the radio card are thus fairly simple. We report that we
- are a tuner called "FM" for FM radio. In order to get the best tuning
- resolution we report VIDEO_TUNER_LOW and select tuning to 1/16th of KHz. Its
- unlikely our card can do that resolution but it is a fair bet the card can
- do better than 1/16th of a MHz. VIDEO_TUNER_LOW is appropriate to almost all
- radio usage.
- </para>
- <para>
- We report that the tuner automatically handles deciding what format it is
- receiving - true enough as it only handles FM radio. Our example card is
- also incapable of detecting stereo or signal strengths so it reports a
- strength of 0xFFFF (maximum) and no stereo detected.
- </para>
- <para>
- To finish off we set the range that can be tuned to be 87-108Mhz, the normal
- FM broadcast radio range. It is important to find out what the card is
- actually capable of tuning. It is easy enough to simply use the FM broadcast
- range. Unfortunately if you do this you will discover the FM broadcast
- ranges in the USA, Europe and Japan are all subtly different and some users
- cannot receive all the stations they wish.
- </para>
- <para>
- The application also needs to be able to set the tuner it wishes to use. In
- our case, with a single tuner this is rather simple to arrange.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
- case VIDIOCSTUNER:
- {
- struct video_tuner v;
- if(copy_from_user(&amp;v, arg, sizeof(v)))
- return -EFAULT;
- if(v.tuner != 0)
- return -EINVAL;
- return 0;
- }
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- We copy the user supplied structure into kernel memory so we can examine it.
- If the user has selected a tuner other than zero we reject the request. If
- they wanted tuner 0 then, surprisingly enough, that is the current tuner already.
- </para>
- <para>
- The next two ioctls we need to provide are to get and set the frequency of
- the radio. These both use an unsigned long argument which is the frequency.
- The scale of the frequency depends on the VIDEO_TUNER_LOW flag as I
- mentioned earlier on. Since we have VIDEO_TUNER_LOW set this will be in
- 1/16ths of a KHz.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-static unsigned long current_freq;
-
-
-
- case VIDIOCGFREQ:
- if(copy_to_user(arg, &amp;current_freq,
- sizeof(unsigned long))
- return -EFAULT;
- return 0;
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- Querying the frequency in our case is relatively simple. Our radio card is
- too dumb to let us query the signal strength so we remember our setting if
- we know it. All we have to do is copy it to the user.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
- case VIDIOCSFREQ:
- {
- u32 freq;
- if(copy_from_user(arg, &amp;freq,
- sizeof(unsigned long))!=0)
- return -EFAULT;
- if(hardware_set_freq(freq)&lt;0)
- return -EINVAL;
- current_freq = freq;
- return 0;
- }
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- Setting the frequency is a little more complex. We begin by copying the
- desired frequency into kernel space. Next we call a hardware specific routine
- to set the radio up. This might be as simple as some scaling and a few
- writes to an I/O port. For most radio cards it turns out a good deal more
- complicated and may involve programming things like a phase locked loop on
- the card. This is what documentation is for.
- </para>
- <para>
- The final set of operations we need to provide for our radio are the
- volume controls. Not all radio cards can even do volume control. After all
- there is a perfectly good volume control on the sound card. We will assume
- our radio card has a simple 4 step volume control.
- </para>
- <para>
- There are two ioctls with audio we need to support
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-static int current_volume=0;
-
- case VIDIOCGAUDIO:
- {
- struct video_audio v;
- if(copy_from_user(&amp;v, arg, sizeof(v)))
- return -EFAULT;
- if(v.audio != 0)
- return -EINVAL;
- v.volume = 16384*current_volume;
- v.step = 16384;
- strcpy(v.name, "Radio");
- v.mode = VIDEO_SOUND_MONO;
- v.balance = 0;
- v.base = 0;
- v.treble = 0;
-
- if(copy_to_user(arg. &amp;v, sizeof(v)))
- return -EFAULT;
- return 0;
- }
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- Much like the tuner we start by copying the user structure into kernel
- space. Again we check if the user has asked for a valid audio input. We have
- only input 0 and we punt if they ask for another input.
- </para>
- <para>
- Then we fill in the video_audio structure. This has the following format
- </para>
- <table frame="all" id="video_audio_fields"><title>struct video_audio fields</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>audio</entry><entry>The input the user wishes to query</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>volume</entry><entry>The volume setting on a scale of 0-65535</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>base</entry><entry>The base level on a scale of 0-65535</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>treble</entry><entry>The treble level on a scale of 0-65535</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>flags</entry><entry>The features this audio device supports
- </entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>name</entry><entry>A text name to display to the user. We picked
- "Radio" as it explains things quite nicely.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>mode</entry><entry>The current reception mode for the audio
-
- We report MONO because our card is too stupid to know if it is in
- mono or stereo.
- </entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>balance</entry><entry>The stereo balance on a scale of 0-65535, 32768 is
- middle.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>step</entry><entry>The step by which the volume control jumps. This is
- used to help make it easy for applications to set
- slider behaviour.</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
-
- <table frame="all" id="video_audio_flags"><title>struct video_audio flags</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>VIDEO_AUDIO_MUTE</entry><entry>The audio is currently muted. We
- could fake this in our driver but we
- choose not to bother.</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_AUDIO_MUTABLE</entry><entry>The input has a mute option</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_AUDIO_TREBLE</entry><entry>The input has a treble control</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_AUDIO_BASS</entry><entry>The input has a base control</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
-
- <table frame="all" id="video_audio_modes"><title>struct video_audio modes</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>VIDEO_SOUND_MONO</entry><entry>Mono sound</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_SOUND_STEREO</entry><entry>Stereo sound</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_SOUND_LANG1</entry><entry>Alternative language 1 (TV specific)</entry>
- </row><row>
- <entry>VIDEO_SOUND_LANG2</entry><entry>Alternative language 2 (TV specific)</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- <para>
- Having filled in the structure we copy it back to user space.
- </para>
- <para>
- The VIDIOCSAUDIO ioctl allows the user to set the audio parameters in the
- video_audio structure. The driver does its best to honour the request.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
- case VIDIOCSAUDIO:
- {
- struct video_audio v;
- if(copy_from_user(&amp;v, arg, sizeof(v)))
- return -EFAULT;
- if(v.audio)
- return -EINVAL;
- current_volume = v/16384;
- hardware_set_volume(current_volume);
- return 0;
- }
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- In our case there is very little that the user can set. The volume is
- basically the limit. Note that we could pretend to have a mute feature
- by rewriting this to
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
- case VIDIOCSAUDIO:
- {
- struct video_audio v;
- if(copy_from_user(&amp;v, arg, sizeof(v)))
- return -EFAULT;
- if(v.audio)
- return -EINVAL;
- current_volume = v/16384;
- if(v.flags&amp;VIDEO_AUDIO_MUTE)
- hardware_set_volume(0);
- else
- hardware_set_volume(current_volume);
- current_muted = v.flags &amp;
- VIDEO_AUDIO_MUTE;
- return 0;
- }
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- This with the corresponding changes to the VIDIOCGAUDIO code to report the
- state of the mute flag we save and to report the card has a mute function,
- will allow applications to use a mute facility with this card. It is
- questionable whether this is a good idea however. User applications can already
- fake this themselves and kernel space is precious.
- </para>
- <para>
- We now have a working radio ioctl handler. So we just wrap up the function
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-
- }
- return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
-}
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- and pass the Video4Linux layer back an error so that it knows we did not
- understand the request we got passed.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="modradio">
- <title>Module Wrapper</title>
- <para>
- Finally we add in the usual module wrapping and the driver is done.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-
-#ifndef MODULE
-
-static int io = 0x300;
-
-#else
-
-static int io = -1;
-
-#endif
-
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("A driver for an imaginary radio card.");
-module_param(io, int, 0444);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(io, "I/O address of the card.");
-
-static int __init init(void)
-{
- if(io==-1)
- {
- printk(KERN_ERR
- "You must set an I/O address with io=0x???\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
- return myradio_init(NULL);
-}
-
-static void __exit cleanup(void)
-{
- video_unregister_device(&amp;my_radio);
- release_region(io, MY_IO_SIZE);
-}
-
-module_init(init);
-module_exit(cleanup);
-
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- In this example we set the IO base by default if the driver is compiled into
- the kernel: you can still set it using "my_radio.irq" if this file is called <filename>my_radio.c</filename>. For the module we require the
- user sets the parameter. We set io to a nonsense port (-1) so that we can
- tell if the user supplied an io parameter or not.
- </para>
- <para>
- We use MODULE_ defines to give an author for the card driver and a
- description. We also use them to declare that io is an integer and it is the
- address of the card, and can be read by anyone from sysfs.
- </para>
- <para>
- The clean-up routine unregisters the video_device we registered, and frees
- up the I/O space. Note that the unregister takes the actual video_device
- structure as its argument. Unlike the file operations structure which can be
- shared by all instances of a device a video_device structure as an actual
- instance of the device. If you are registering multiple radio devices you
- need to fill in one structure per device (most likely by setting up a
- template and copying it to each of the actual device structures).
- </para>
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
- <chapter id="Video_Capture_Devices">
- <title>Video Capture Devices</title>
- <sect1 id="introvid">
- <title>Video Capture Device Types</title>
- <para>
- The video capture devices share the same interfaces as radio devices. In
- order to explain the video capture interface I will use the example of a
- camera that has no tuners or audio input. This keeps the example relatively
- clean. To get both combine the two driver examples.
- </para>
- <para>
- Video capture devices divide into four categories. A little technology
- backgrounder. Full motion video even at television resolution (which is
- actually fairly low) is pretty resource-intensive. You are continually
- passing megabytes of data every second from the capture card to the display.
- several alternative approaches have emerged because copying this through the
- processor and the user program is a particularly bad idea .
- </para>
- <para>
- The first is to add the television image onto the video output directly.
- This is also how some 3D cards work. These basic cards can generally drop the
- video into any chosen rectangle of the display. Cards like this, which
- include most mpeg1 cards that used the feature connector, aren't very
- friendly in a windowing environment. They don't understand windows or
- clipping. The video window is always on the top of the display.
- </para>
- <para>
- Chroma keying is a technique used by cards to get around this. It is an old
- television mixing trick where you mark all the areas you wish to replace
- with a single clear colour that isn't used in the image - TV people use an
- incredibly bright blue while computing people often use a particularly
- virulent purple. Bright blue occurs on the desktop. Anyone with virulent
- purple windows has another problem besides their TV overlay.
- </para>
- <para>
- The third approach is to copy the data from the capture card to the video
- card, but to do it directly across the PCI bus. This relieves the processor
- from doing the work but does require some smartness on the part of the video
- capture chip, as well as a suitable video card. Programming this kind of
- card and more so debugging it can be extremely tricky. There are some quite
- complicated interactions with the display and you may also have to cope with
- various chipset bugs that show up when PCI cards start talking to each
- other.
- </para>
- <para>
- To keep our example fairly simple we will assume a card that supports
- overlaying a flat rectangular image onto the frame buffer output, and which
- can also capture stuff into processor memory.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="regvid">
- <title>Registering Video Capture Devices</title>
- <para>
- This time we need to add more functions for our camera device.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-static struct video_device my_camera
-{
- "My Camera",
- VID_TYPE_OVERLAY|VID_TYPE_SCALES|\
- VID_TYPE_CAPTURE|VID_TYPE_CHROMAKEY,
- camera_open.
- camera_close,
- camera_read, /* no read */
- NULL, /* no write */
- camera_poll, /* no poll */
- camera_ioctl,
- NULL, /* no special init function */
- NULL /* no private data */
-};
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- We need a read() function which is used for capturing data from
- the card, and we need a poll function so that a driver can wait for the next
- frame to be captured.
- </para>
- <para>
- We use the extra video capability flags that did not apply to the
- radio interface. The video related flags are
- </para>
- <table frame="all" id="Capture_Capabilities"><title>Capture Capabilities</title>
- <tgroup cols="2" align="left">
- <tbody>
- <row>
-<entry>VID_TYPE_CAPTURE</entry><entry>We support image capture</entry>
-</row><row>
-<entry>VID_TYPE_TELETEXT</entry><entry>A teletext capture device (vbi{n])</entry>
-</row><row>
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