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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-07-08 15:47:00 -0300
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[media] doc-rst: mention the memory type to be set for all streaming I/O
Changeset 8c9f46095176 ("[media] DocBook: mention the memory type to be set for all streaming I/O") updated the media DocBook to mention the need of filling the memory types. We need to keep the ReST doc updated to such change. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Input and output devices support this I/O method when the
:ref:`v4l2_capability <v4l2-capability>` returned by the
:ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` ioctl is set. There are two
streaming methods, to determine if the memory mapping flavor is
-supported applications must call the
-:ref:`VIDIOC_REQBUFS` ioctl.
+supported applications must call the :ref:`VIDIOC_REQBUFS` ioctl
+with the memory type set to ``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP``.
Streaming is an I/O method where only pointers to buffers are exchanged
between application and driver, the data itself is not copied. Memory
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