ENUM DVB_DEVICE_TYPE(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌈 enum dvb_device_type(9) 🌈

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this is the page for enum dvb_device_type, and it's literally just "what kind of Digital TV device are we even talking about rn" — the official vibe check for DVB hardware. no cap, it's a whole little enum and we're gonna go through every single member together, hand in hand 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

enum dvb_device_type — the type of the Digital TV device 💅 that's it, that's the whole job.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the full lineup, copy-pasted from the source so you know it's real:

enum dvb_device_type {
    DVB_DEVICE_SEC ,
    DVB_DEVICE_FRONTEND ,
    DVB_DEVICE_DEMUX ,
    DVB_DEVICE_DVR ,
    DVB_DEVICE_CA ,
    DVB_DEVICE_NET ,
    DVB_DEVICE_VIDEO ,
    DVB_DEVICE_AUDIO ,
    DVB_DEVICE_OSD

};

(yes the spacing is a little unhinged, we love that for them 💀)

✨ Constants ✨

now the main character energy: every single constant, one by one, no skipping, we don't do that here 🌸

  • DVB_DEVICE_SEC — Digital TV standalone Common Interface (CI) 🎀
  • DVB_DEVICE_FRONTEND — Digital TV frontend ✨
  • DVB_DEVICE_DEMUX — Digital TV demux 🦋
  • DVB_DEVICE_DVR — Digital TV digital video record (DVR) 📼
  • DVB_DEVICE_CA — Digital TV Conditional Access (CA) 🔐
  • DVB_DEVICE_NET — Digital TV network 🌐
  • DVB_DEVICE_VIDEO — Digital TV video decoder. Deprecated. ⚠️ used only on av7110-av
  • DVB_DEVICE_AUDIO — Digital TV audio decoder. Deprecated. ⚠️ used only on av7110-av
  • DVB_DEVICE_OSD — Digital TV On Screen Display (OSD). Deprecated. ⚠️ used only on av7110
okay so notice how the last three are lowkey marked deprecated 🥲 — DVB_DEVICE_VIDEO and DVB_DEVICE_AUDIO are only used on av7110-av, and DVB_DEVICE_OSD is only used on av7110. so like, don't go reaching for those unless you're already deep in that specific hardware lore, iykyk 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the whole friend group 🫶 first up, the kernel file ./include/media/dvbdev.h, then every function that shows up in the same orbit:

and that's the page, bestie 🎀 sign-off time: this lil beauty lives in ./include/media and it's dated October 2026 — go forth and reference it responsibly, mwah 💋✨

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