diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index d08b7204f815..30d44b81f594 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 5126f2590bee412e3053de851cb07f531e4be36a +refs/heads/master: 1dd8728e2147820f653e5ea92802002fb26131f1 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index e1e6a01d7ac6..0dace876b978 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -619,6 +619,16 @@ in your v4l2_file_operations struct. Do not use .ioctl! This is deprecated and will go away in the future. +In some cases you want to tell the core that a function you had specified in +your v4l2_ioctl_ops should be ignored. You can mark such ioctls by calling this +function before video_device_register is called: + +void v4l2_dont_use_cmd(struct video_device *vdev, unsigned int cmd); + +This tends to be needed if based on external factors (e.g. which card is +being used) you want to turns off certain features in v4l2_ioctl_ops without +having to make a new struct. + The v4l2_file_operations struct is a subset of file_operations. The main difference is that the inode argument is omitted since it is never used.