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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-07 17:49:05 +0900 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-07 17:49:05 +0900 |
commit | 0b8e74c6f44094189dbe78baf4101acc7570c6af (patch) | |
tree | 6440561d09fb71ba5928664604ec92f29940be6b /Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/common.xml | |
parent | 7f60ba388f5b9dd8b0da463b394412dace3ab814 (diff) | |
parent | bd0d10498826ed150da5e4c45baf8b9c7088fb71 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"The first part of the media updates for Kernel 3.7.
This series contain:
- A major tree renaming patch series: now, drivers are organized
internally by their used bus, instead of by V4L2 and/or DVB API,
providing a cleaner driver location for hybrid drivers that
implement both APIs, and allowing to cleanup the Kconfig items and
make them more intuitive for the end user;
- Media Kernel developers are typically very lazy with their duties
of keeping the MAINTAINERS entries for their drivers updated. As
now the tree is more organized, we're doing an effort to add/update
those entries for the drivers that aren't currently orphan;
- Several DVB USB drivers got moved to a new DVB USB v2 core; the new
core fixes several bugs (as the existing one that got bitroted).
Now, suspend/resume finally started to work fine (at least with
some devices - we should expect more work with regards to it);
- added multistream support for DVB-T2, and unified the API for
DVB-S2 and ISDB-S. Backward binary support is preserved;
- as usual, a few new drivers, some V4L2 core improvements and lots
of drivers improvements and fixes.
There are some points to notice on this series:
1) you should expect a trivial merge conflict on your tree, with the
removal of Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt: this series
would be adding two additional entries there. I opted to not
rebase it due to this recent change;
2) With regards to the PCTV 520e udev-related breakage, I opted to
fix it in a way that the patches can be backported to 3.5 even
without your firmware fix patch. This way, Greg doesn't need to
rush backporting your patch (as there are still the firmware cache
and firmware path customization issues to be addressed there).
I'll send later a patch (likely after the end of the merge window)
reverting the rest of the DRX-K async firmware request, fully
restoring its original behaviour to allow media drivers to
initialize everything serialized as before for 3.7 and upper.
3) I'm planning to work on this weekend to test the DMABUF patches
for V4L2. The patches are on my queue for several Kernel cycles,
but, up to now, there is/was no way to test the series locally.
I have some concerns about this particular changeset with regards
to security issues, and with regards to the replacement of the old
VIDIOC_OVERLAY ioctl's that is broken on modern systems, due to
GPU drivers change. The Overlay API allows direct PCI2PCI
transfers from a media capture card into the GPU framebuffer, but
its API is crappy. Also, the only existing X11 driver that
implements it requires a XV extension that is not available
anymore on modern drivers. The DMABUF can do the same thing, but
with it is promising to be a properly-designed API. If I can
successfully test this series and be happy with it, I should be
asking you to pull them next week."
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (717 commits)
em28xx: regression fix: use DRX-K sync firmware requests on em28xx
drxk: allow loading firmware synchrousnously
em28xx: Make all em28xx extensions to be initialized asynchronously
[media] tda18271: properly report read errors in tda18271_get_id
[media] tda18271: delay IR & RF calibration until init() if delay_cal is set
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as tda827x maintainer
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as tda8290 maintainer
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as cxusb maintainer
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as lg2160 maintainer
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as lgdt3305 maintainer
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as mxl111sf maintainer
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as mxl5007t maintainer
[media] MAINTAINERS: add Michael Krufky as tda18271 maintainer
[media] s5p-tv: Report only multi-plane capabilities in vidioc_querycap
[media] s5p-mfc: Fix misplaced return statement in s5p_mfc_suspend()
[media] exynos-gsc: Add missing static storage class specifiers
[media] exynos-gsc: Remove <linux/version.h> header file inclusion
[media] s5p-fimc: Fix incorrect condition in fimc_lite_reqbufs()
[media] s5p-tv: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference error
[media] s5k6aa: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference
...
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/common.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/common.xml index b91d25313b63..73c6847436c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/common.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/common.xml @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ automatically.</para> <para>To query and select the standard used by the current video input or output applications call the &VIDIOC-G-STD; and &VIDIOC-S-STD; ioctl, respectively. The <emphasis>received</emphasis> -standard can be sensed with the &VIDIOC-QUERYSTD; ioctl. Note parameter of all these ioctls is a pointer to a &v4l2-std-id; type (a standard set), <emphasis>not</emphasis> an index into the standard enumeration.<footnote> +standard can be sensed with the &VIDIOC-QUERYSTD; ioctl. Note that the parameter of all these ioctls is a pointer to a &v4l2-std-id; type (a standard set), <emphasis>not</emphasis> an index into the standard enumeration.<footnote> <para>An alternative to the current scheme is to use pointers to indices as arguments of <constant>VIDIOC_G_STD</constant> and <constant>VIDIOC_S_STD</constant>, the &v4l2-input; and @@ -588,30 +588,28 @@ switch to a standard by &v4l2-std-id;.</para> </footnote> Drivers must implement all video standard ioctls when the device has one or more video inputs or outputs.</para> - <para>Special rules apply to USB cameras where the notion of video -standards makes little sense. More generally any capture device, -output devices accordingly, which is <itemizedlist> + <para>Special rules apply to devices such as USB cameras where the notion of video +standards makes little sense. More generally for any capture or output device +which is: <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>incapable of capturing fields or frames at the nominal rate of the video standard, or</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>where <link linkend="buffer">timestamps</link> refer -to the instant the field or frame was received by the driver, not the -capture time, or</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>where <link linkend="buffer">sequence numbers</link> -refer to the frames received by the driver, not the captured -frames.</para> + <para>that does not support the video standard formats at all.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> Here the driver shall set the <structfield>std</structfield> field of &v4l2-input; and &v4l2-output; -to zero, the <constant>VIDIOC_G_STD</constant>, +to zero and the <constant>VIDIOC_G_STD</constant>, <constant>VIDIOC_S_STD</constant>, <constant>VIDIOC_QUERYSTD</constant> and <constant>VIDIOC_ENUMSTD</constant> ioctls shall return the -&EINVAL;.<footnote> +&ENOTTY;.<footnote> + <para>See <xref linkend="buffer" /> for a rationale.</para> + <para>Applications can make use of the <xref linkend="input-capabilities" /> and +<xref linkend="output-capabilities"/> flags to determine whether the video standard ioctls +are available for the device.</para> +&ENOTTY;. <para>See <xref linkend="buffer" /> for a rationale. Probably even USB cameras follow some well known video standard. It might have been better to explicitly indicate elsewhere if a device cannot live @@ -626,9 +624,9 @@ up to normal expectations, instead of this exception.</para> &v4l2-standard; standard; if (-1 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-G-STD;, &std_id)) { - /* Note when VIDIOC_ENUMSTD always returns EINVAL this + /* Note when VIDIOC_ENUMSTD always returns ENOTTY this is no video device or it falls under the USB exception, - and VIDIOC_G_STD returning EINVAL is no error. */ + and VIDIOC_G_STD returning ENOTTY is no error. */ perror ("VIDIOC_G_STD"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); |