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author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2010-02-20 07:41:03 -0500 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-02-26 13:11:05 -0500 |
commit | 995f5fefb0c6abba3688b3aadf40e422b64b814a (patch) | |
tree | 560d626bee9f74cf64c96e1d9ff93bfeb230c686 /Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml | |
parent | 340dde817a4f68af79453ed295ca0e8de7232669 (diff) |
V4L/DVB: media-spec: Fix documentation mistakes regarding I/O streaming
The media spec contains several errors in the description of the
I/O streaming ioctls, in particular with respect to the userptr
I/O method.
The most important change is that you really need to set count
and index in v4l2_requestbuffer and v4l2_buffer when dealing with
user pointer streaming.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml index d834993e6191..e649805a4908 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml | |||
@@ -54,12 +54,13 @@ buffer at any time after buffers have been allocated with the | |||
54 | &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl.</para> | 54 | &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl.</para> |
55 | 55 | ||
56 | <para>Applications set the <structfield>type</structfield> field | 56 | <para>Applications set the <structfield>type</structfield> field |
57 | of a &v4l2-buffer; to the same buffer type as previously | 57 | of a &v4l2-buffer; to the same buffer type as was previously used with |
58 | &v4l2-format; <structfield>type</structfield> and &v4l2-requestbuffers; | 58 | &v4l2-format; <structfield>type</structfield> and &v4l2-requestbuffers; |
59 | <structfield>type</structfield>, and the <structfield>index</structfield> | 59 | <structfield>type</structfield>, and the <structfield>index</structfield> |
60 | field. Valid index numbers range from zero | 60 | field. Valid index numbers range from zero |
61 | to the number of buffers allocated with &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; | 61 | to the number of buffers allocated with &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; |
62 | (&v4l2-requestbuffers; <structfield>count</structfield>) minus one. | 62 | (&v4l2-requestbuffers; <structfield>count</structfield>) minus one. |
63 | The <structfield>reserved</structfield> field should to set to 0. | ||
63 | After calling <constant>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</constant> with a pointer to | 64 | After calling <constant>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</constant> with a pointer to |
64 | this structure drivers return an error code or fill the rest of | 65 | this structure drivers return an error code or fill the rest of |
65 | the structure.</para> | 66 | the structure.</para> |
@@ -68,8 +69,8 @@ the structure.</para> | |||
68 | <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_MAPPED</constant>, | 69 | <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_MAPPED</constant>, |
69 | <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_QUEUED</constant> and | 70 | <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_QUEUED</constant> and |
70 | <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_DONE</constant> flags will be valid. The | 71 | <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_DONE</constant> flags will be valid. The |
71 | <structfield>memory</structfield> field will be set to | 72 | <structfield>memory</structfield> field will be set to the current |
72 | <constant>V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP</constant>, the <structfield>m.offset</structfield> | 73 | I/O method, the <structfield>m.offset</structfield> |
73 | contains the offset of the buffer from the start of the device memory, | 74 | contains the offset of the buffer from the start of the device memory, |
74 | the <structfield>length</structfield> field its size. The driver may | 75 | the <structfield>length</structfield> field its size. The driver may |
75 | or may not set the remaining fields and flags, they are meaningless in | 76 | or may not set the remaining fields and flags, they are meaningless in |