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[media] Add vfl_dir field documentation
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Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Hans Verkuil authored and Mauro Carvalho Chehab committed Sep 26, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -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
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