From 8e6a5ef96bbb7685c3dc44f90bfd3ed5b23e3cb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Verkuil Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:06:33 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 331116 b: refs/heads/master c: d2210f9e2e269975db413b8fe4de2f07e6a09b05 h: refs/heads/master v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | 10 +++++++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 01deff93d8d7..0b0e4cef49fb 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 90d0fc4985e72c1d09af2078d9e84454b43495f0 +refs/heads/master: d2210f9e2e269975db413b8fe4de2f07e6a09b05 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index e7006cacc86b..32bfe926e8d7 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -583,11 +583,19 @@ You should also set these fields: - name: set to something descriptive and unique. +- vfl_dir: set this to VFL_DIR_RX for capture devices (VFL_DIR_RX has value 0, + so this is normally already the default), set to VFL_DIR_TX for output + devices and VFL_DIR_M2M for mem2mem (codec) devices. + - fops: set to the v4l2_file_operations struct. - ioctl_ops: if you use the v4l2_ioctl_ops to simplify ioctl maintenance (highly recommended to use this and it might become compulsory in the - future!), then set this to your v4l2_ioctl_ops struct. + future!), then set this to your v4l2_ioctl_ops struct. The vfl_type and + vfl_dir fields are used to disable ops that do not match the type/dir + combination. E.g. VBI ops are disabled for non-VBI nodes, and output ops + are disabled for a capture device. This makes it possible to provide + just one v4l2_ioctl_ops struct for both vbi and video nodes. - lock: leave to NULL if you want to do all the locking in the driver. Otherwise you give it a pointer to a struct mutex_lock and before the