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author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2011-01-11 14:45:03 -0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2011-01-19 11:45:32 -0200 |
commit | 2a863793beaa0fc9ee7aeb87efe85544a6b129c0 (patch) | |
tree | 9316b12b95a707eb5541db2e24d6033d9b0e2805 /Documentation | |
parent | 45f6f84af3ae9db19f39bc5d0976d626b0ef626e (diff) | |
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[media] v4l2-ctrls: v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup must set is_new to 1
Renamed has_new to is_new.
Drivers can use the is_new field to determine if a new value was specified
for a control. The v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup() must always set this to 1 since
the setup has to force a full update of all controls.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt index 8773778d23fc..881e7f44491b 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt @@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ implement g_volatile_ctrl like this: The 'new value' union is not used in g_volatile_ctrl. In general controls that need to implement g_volatile_ctrl are read-only controls. +Note that if one or more controls in a control cluster are marked as volatile, +then all the controls in the cluster are seen as volatile. + To mark a control as volatile you have to set the is_volatile flag: ctrl = v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&sd->ctrl_handler, ...); @@ -462,6 +465,15 @@ pointer to the v4l2_ctrl_ops struct that is used for that cluster. Obviously, all controls in the cluster array must be initialized to either a valid control or to NULL. +In rare cases you might want to know which controls of a cluster actually +were set explicitly by the user. For this you can check the 'is_new' flag of +each control. For example, in the case of a volume/mute cluster the 'is_new' +flag of the mute control would be set if the user called VIDIOC_S_CTRL for +mute only. If the user would call VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS for both mute and volume +controls, then the 'is_new' flag would be 1 for both controls. + +The 'is_new' flag is always 1 when called from v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup(). + VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS Support ========================= |