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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml64
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt-z16.xml2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml2
5 files changed, 69 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
index e09025db92bd..21a3dde8f95d 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ function.<footnote>
<structfield>capabilities</structfield> field of &v4l2-capability;
returned by the &VIDIOC-QUERYCAP; ioctl is set. There are two
streaming methods, to determine if the memory mapping flavor is
-supported applications must call the &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl.</para>
+supported applications must call the &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl with the memory type set to <constant>V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP</constant>.</para>
<para>Streaming is an I/O method where only pointers to buffers
are exchanged between application and driver, the data itself is not
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ rest should be evident.</para>
<structfield>capabilities</structfield> field of &v4l2-capability;
returned by the &VIDIOC-QUERYCAP; ioctl is set. If the particular user
pointer method (not only memory mapping) is supported must be
-determined by calling the &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl.</para>
+determined by calling the &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl with the memory type set to <constant>V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR</constant>.</para>
<para>This I/O method combines advantages of the read/write and
memory mapping methods. Buffers (planes) are allocated by the application
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml
index 725b221e1f6c..f53ad58027a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ on working with the default settings initially.</para>
<varlistentry>
<term>LIRC_SET_{SEND,REC}_CARRIER</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Set send/receive carrier (in Hz).</para>
+ <para>Set send/receive carrier (in Hz). Return 0 on success.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml
index 5e3f20fdcf17..95aa1f9c836a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml
@@ -121,6 +121,70 @@
<entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_F_AUDIO_MIXER</constant></entry>
<entry>Audio Mixer Function Entity.</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_COMPOSER</constant></entry>
+ <entry>Video composer (blender). An entity capable of video
+ composing must have at least two sink pads and one source
+ pad, and composes input video frames onto output video
+ frames. Composition can be performed using alpha blending,
+ color keying, raster operations (ROP), stitching or any other
+ means.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_PIXEL_FORMATTER</constant></entry>
+ <entry>Video pixel formatter. An entity capable of pixel formatting
+ must have at least one sink pad and one source pad. Read
+ pixel formatters read pixels from memory and perform a subset
+ of unpacking, cropping, color keying, alpha multiplication
+ and pixel encoding conversion. Write pixel formatters perform
+ a subset of dithering, pixel encoding conversion and packing
+ and write pixels to memory.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_PIXEL_ENC_CONV</constant></entry>
+ <entry>Video pixel encoding converter. An entity capable of pixel
+ enconding conversion must have at least one sink pad and one
+ source pad, and convert the encoding of pixels received on
+ its sink pad(s) to a different encoding output on its source
+ pad(s). Pixel encoding conversion includes but isn't limited
+ to RGB to/from HSV, RGB to/from YUV and CFA (Bayer) to RGB
+ conversions.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_LUT</constant></entry>
+ <entry>Video look-up table. An entity capable of video lookup table
+ processing must have one sink pad and one source pad. It uses
+ the values of the pixels received on its sink pad to look up
+ entries in internal tables and output them on its source pad.
+ The lookup processing can be performed on all components
+ separately or combine them for multi-dimensional table
+ lookups.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_SCALER</constant></entry>
+ <entry>Video scaler. An entity capable of video scaling must have
+ at least one sink pad and one source pad, and scale the
+ video frame(s) received on its sink pad(s) to a different
+ resolution output on its source pad(s). The range of
+ supported scaling ratios is entity-specific and can differ
+ between the horizontal and vertical directions (in particular
+ scaling can be supported in one direction only). Binning and
+ skipping are considered as scaling.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_STATISTICS</constant></entry>
+ <entry>Video statistics computation (histogram, 3A, ...). An entity
+ capable of statistics computation must have one sink pad and
+ one source pad. It computes statistics over the frames
+ received on its sink pad and outputs the statistics data on
+ its source pad.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt-z16.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt-z16.xml
index 3d87e4bf87b8..1d9cb1684bd3 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt-z16.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt-z16.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname><constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_Z16</constant></refname>
- <refpurpose>Interleaved grey-scale image, e.g. from a stereo-pair</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>16-bit depth data with distance values at each pixel</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml
index 0f193fda0470..6f529e100ea4 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
<refnamediv>
<refname>VIDIOC_REQBUFS</refname>
- <refpurpose>Initiate Memory Mapping or User Pointer I/O</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Initiate Memory Mapping, User Pointer or DMA Buffer I/O</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
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