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authorSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>2012-05-02 09:40:03 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-07-05 18:00:32 -0300
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[media] v4l: drop v4l2_buffer.input and V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT
Remove input field in struct v4l2_buffer and flag V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT which tells the former is valid. The flag is used by no driver currently. Also change the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> 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/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.xml9
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
index ea42ef824948..a8b374930405 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
@@ -2458,6 +2458,18 @@ details.</para>
</orderedlist>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>V4L2 in Linux 3.5</title>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Replaced <structfield>input</structfield> in
+ <structname>v4l2_buffer</structname> by
+ <structfield>reserved2</structfield> and removed
+ <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </section>
+
<section id="other">
<title>Relation of V4L2 to other Linux multimedia APIs</title>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
index fd6aca2922b6..1885cc0755cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
@@ -683,14 +683,12 @@ memory, set by the application. See <xref linkend="userp" /> for details.
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
- <entry><structfield>input</structfield></entry>
+ <entry><structfield>reserved2</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
- <entry>Some video capture drivers support rapid and
-synchronous video input changes, a function useful for example in
-video surveillance applications. For this purpose applications set the
-<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant> flag, and this field to the
-number of a video input as in &v4l2-input; field
-<structfield>index</structfield>.</entry>
+ <entry>A place holder for future extensions and custom
+(driver defined) buffer types
+<constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_PRIVATE</constant> and higher. Applications
+should set this to 0.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
@@ -923,13 +921,6 @@ Drivers set or clear this flag when the <constant>VIDIOC_DQBUF</constant>
ioctl is called.</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0200</entry>
- <entry>The <structfield>input</structfield> field is valid.
-Applications set or clear this flag before calling the
-<constant>VIDIOC_QBUF</constant> ioctl.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_PREPARED</constant></entry>
<entry>0x0400</entry>
<entry>The buffer has been prepared for I/O and can be queued by the
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.xml
index 9caa49af580f..77ff5be0809d 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.xml
@@ -71,12 +71,9 @@ initialize the <structfield>bytesused</structfield>,
<structfield>field</structfield> and
<structfield>timestamp</structfield> fields, see <xref
linkend="buffer" /> for details.
-Applications must also set <structfield>flags</structfield> to 0. If a driver
-supports capturing from specific video inputs and you want to specify a video
-input, then <structfield>flags</structfield> should be set to
-<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant> and the field
-<structfield>input</structfield> must be initialized to the desired input.
-The <structfield>reserved</structfield> field must be set to 0. When using
+Applications must also set <structfield>flags</structfield> to 0.
+The <structfield>reserved2</structfield> and
+<structfield>reserved</structfield> fields must be set to 0. When using
the <link linkend="planar-apis">multi-planar API</link>, the
<structfield>m.planes</structfield> field must contain a userspace pointer
to a filled-in array of &v4l2-plane; and the <structfield>length</structfield>
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